Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft перестала принимать биткоины в качестве оплаты за контент в Microsoft Store, говорится в сообщении компании для пользователей Wndows 10 и Windows 10 Mobile.... →

Microsoft is fending off criticisms of its plan to unify its products and to raise the profile of its Windows Store, and the company is now planning to take that debate into its annual gathering of developers later this month. Xbox boss Phil Spencer responded to the ongoing criticism of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) […]... →

Microsoft today released a new tool that will make it easier for users of Evernote’s note-taking service to make the transition to rival application OneNote, a part of the Microsoft Office suite. The “OneNote Importer tool,” as the software is called, aims to address the switching costs that can hold back users from making a move to a competing platform. Microsoft even goes… Read More... →

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Microsoft cancels Fable Legends, we learn about the challenges of porting Final Fantasy IX to mobile, and Epic’s Tim Sweeney explains how to keep Windows an open platform. Have a great weekend, everyone! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: At 30, GDC is stronger than ever GamesBeat […]... →

Microsoft today launched a OneNote importer tool that lets Evernote users bring their content to Microsoft’s note-taking tool. You can download the OneNote Importer for Windows now from OneNote.com (a Mac version will follow “in the coming months”). Once your notes have been imported, you can access them in OneNote on your computer, phone, and […]... →

Новым главным редактором издания «Лайфхакер» назначен бывший топ-менеджер «Альфа-банка» и евангелист Microsoft Пётр Диденко. Об этом vc.ru рассказал Алексей Пономарь, директор компании «Буферная бухта», которая издаёт «Лайфхакер».... →

(Reuters) – Fifteen years after calling the open-source operating system Linux a “cancer,” former Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has softened his position. Speaking on Wednesday night at a dinner hosted by Fortune magazine, Ballmer said the position was right for the time, but the threat from Linux was now “in the rearview mirror.” “The […]... →

Gamers continue to flock to the latest hardware offerings from Sony and Microsoft, but only one can dominate this generation. PlayStation 4 outsold the Xbox One once again at physical retailers in the United States in February, according to data from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group provided to GamesBeat by Sony Computer Entertainment America. This […]... →

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Haven OnDemand machine learning-centric developer platform has been around since late 2014, but it’s only coming out of beta and becoming commercially available today. Haven OnDemand, which is hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform, provides developers with APIs and services for building data-rich applications. The roughly 60 APIs currently included… Read More... →

GUEST: Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open consumer PC ecosystem. Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox at Microsoft, responding on Twitter, said, “UWP is a fully open ecosystem, available to every developer, […]... →

GUEST: Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft and the current owner of the L.A. Clippers, has a lot to say about Microsoft — especially about the Microsoft Azure cloud business. In an interview with Bloomberg, he argued that since the company was betting big on the cloud, it should report revenues and profits […]... →

Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today, although the company still isn’t ready to share when the operating system will be available for older devices. The latest build includes improvements to the Phone app, Outlook, and Calendar. Like the last mobile build, this one is only available for devices that shipped with Windows […]... →

Microsoft spends a lot of time and money developing many technologies that could end up being part of the company’s next products. For instance, the company has many researchers working on artificial intelligence, which powers real-time speech translation with Skype Translator. But one area stands out for Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft […]... →

A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then, the company’s database focus remains squarely on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2016, which is currently available as a release candidate and which will become generally… Read More... →

Salesforce today announced the availability of SalesforceIQ Inbox for Outlook, an add-in for the Microsoft Outlook web-based email service that integrates with Salesforce’s Sales Cloud customer-relationship management (CRM) software and adds smart features such as automated responses. The introduction of the feature follows Salesforce’s launch of a SalesforceIQ Chrome extension for Gmail. And today’s launch […]... →

Salesforce announced today that its SalesforceIQ intelligence product now integrates with Microsoft Outlook, which happens to be the most used business email program on the planet with over 400 million users on Outlook.com alone. The product being released today is called SalesforceIQ Inbox for Outlook. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but the point is that it takes that existing Inbox product… Read More... →

Грантовый комитет «Сколково» одобрил минигрант в размере 5 млн рублей компании Lexy, которая занимается созданием «интеллектуального домашнего собеседника». Деньги будут направлены на усовершенствования программы, которая понимает запросы человека, в частности, на разработку решения на базе массива микрофонов по локализации источников звука и формированию диаграммы направленности. Это необходимо для распознавания человеческой речи на расстоянии до пяти метров в шумных условиях. По словам сооснователя и гене... →

During Microsoft’s Surface event back in October 2015, the company also announced that Facebook is building universal Windows 10 apps for Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Today, screenshots and a video of the third app have leaked courtesy of WindowsBlogItalia. One of the reasons why I prefer Facebook Messenger over WhatsApp is the desktop experience. […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it will be cutting support for Android, iOS, Windows Store, and Windows Phone app in the Application Insights tool for its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Application Insights, which offers analytics on performance and usage, will stop accepting new apps for those platforms on April 15, and on June 15, […]... →

Xbox Live has had a lot of problems in the first few months of 2016, and fans are starting to get fed up. This finally prompted one of Microsoft’s most consumer-facing personalities to address those concerns. Earlier this week, fans on the Xbox One forum on the community site Reddit started a thread asking if Microsoft […]... →