Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco, easily the company’s biggest event of the year, is always popular. But tickets for this year’s three-day developer event, taking place March 30 to April 1, were even harder to get than usual. Microsoft said the event sold out in less than 20 minutes — hardly enough time to […]... →

After a big update in November, Microsoft is getting back to adding smaller features to the Xbox One. The publisher announced that it’s starting to roll out improvements for the Xbox One for anyone in the Preview program. This patch brings some community-requested features, like the capability to see who is in a party before […]... →

Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are among a host of tech companies and carmakers implicated in a new report that sheds light on apparent child labor practices in the sourcing of minerals used to create batteries. Read More... →

Microsoft is further expanding on its investment in Minecraft, bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion, by acquiring a learning game called MinecraftEdu for an undisclosed sum. The game, produced by a company called Teacher Gaming LLC, allows teachers to use Minecraft in the classroom, and includes a library of lessons and activities used to teach subjects including STEM, history, language, and art. Read More... →

Microsoft is continuing on its mission to use Minecraft in education with the news that it has acquired MinecraftEdu, a company that makes a modified Minecraft specifically for the classroom. Additionally, Microsoft said that it’s launching a new Minecraft Education Edition for schools this summer. Mojang, the Sweden-based game development studio that shot to prominence […]... →

Apple, Dell, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, and Vodafone all have connections to child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo by virtue of their acquisition of cobalt, an element found in lithium-ion batteries, according to a new report. Artisinal mining for cobalt ore can include children, and working in this business can […]... →

Posted by Tom-AnthonySEOs traditionally say that a specific search query can be classified as either navigational, informational, or transactional. The categories were originally published in 2002 in a peer-reviewed paper by Andrei Broder who worked for Altavista (remember them?!) at the time. The categories that Broder came up with have been invaluable to SEOs for many years, helping many of us explain the different types of search query that we should consider. However, it's time to revisit these categori... →

Less than two weeks ago, we confirmed the specifications and design of Microsoft’s Lumia 650. Now we’re learning that the device will be officially unveiled on February 1, according to Windows Central. Final details of the device, including pricing and availability, will be announced via a blog post. Microsoft unsurprisingly isn’t holding a press event […]... →

Microsoft technical evangelist Bruce Harris has unveiled new details for Microsoft’s augmented reality headset HoloLens. At an event in Tel Aviv, Harris was recorded (via Petri) saying that that any universal Windows 10 app will run natively on the device, as we’ve already heard, and that developers will naturally need to create 3D apps to […]... →

Microsoft today announced updates to its support policy for Windows on certain types of computer processors. The changes show Microsoft wanting Windows 10 to be running on the latest silicon. The news is particularly important to Microsoft’s longtime partner Intel. The 14-nanometer Intel Core sixth-generation chips codenamed Skylake first showed up on the market last […]... →

Технологические компании не думали об остальном мире, когда разрабатывали компьютеры, операционные системы и приложения. Но нигде это не ощущалась острее, чем в СССР.... →

Microsoft в очередной раз обновил дизайн логотипа собственной поисковой системы Bing. В новом варианте прописную «В» в названии изменили на заглавную, а цвет – с жёлтого на зеленовато-синий. «Bing – успешный самостоятельный бизнес и ключевой компонент многих сервисов внутри и за пределами Microsoft. Нам кажется, что пришло время освежить его логотип», - прокомментировал обновление пресс-секретарь компании. По его словам, цвет морской волны отлично сочетается с интерфейсом Windows. Вице-президент Microsoft ... →

Microsoft today announced price cuts for some of its Azure public cloud instances. The move is not surprising as it lines up with Microsoft’s assurance to customers in 2013 that it would match Azure’s prices with that that of public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, and AWS announced price cuts last week. Azure’s D-Series […]... →

Sony Computer Entertainment ended 2015 with a strong sales performance. The PlayStation 4 once again outsold Microsoft’s Xbox One console at U.S. retailers, according to data from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group provided to GamesBeat by Sony. This means the PS4 was the top-selling home console for the two biggest months of the year after […]... →

Microsoft has long said it would match AWS’s prices for compute, storage and bandwidth. Earlier this month, Amazon dropped the price of some of its general purpose, compute- and memory-optimized EC2 machines. It doesn’t come as a major surprise then that Microsoft is now also dropping the prices for some of its virtual machines by between 10 and 17 percent. Microsoft’s… Read More... →

Hardware is going through the first phase of a shift from desktops and smartphones to, maybe, virtual and augmented reality. And Microsoft wants to help developers get involved as soon as possible. With the goal of bringing in more developers to work on its augmented reality HoloLens headset, Microsoft has a new video that should […]... →

When something happens like I don’t know…Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because hot damn sometimes it just feels good. Today, one Xbox Live user was particularly miffed. His name happens to be Snoop Dogg. He had a message for Xbox, the Live team, EA sports, Microsoft’s… Read More... →

As promised, Microsoft has open-sourced the core components of Chakra, the company’s JavaScript engine that’s used in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. The project, dubbed ChakraCore, has been released on GitHub. Aside from powering Microsoft’s browsers, Chakra also helps power Azure DocumentDB, Cortana, Outlook.com, TypeScript, Node.js in Windows 10 IoT Core, as well as universal […]... →

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the first build of 2016. The main focus of this build is structural improvements to OneCore, the shared core of Windows across devices. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, this means […]... →

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired the management, reporting, and analytics technology from Event Zero, a management software provider for its Skype for Business offering. The move is said to enable Microsoft to “expand and improve the built-in management tools for Skype for Business.” Although Event Zero’s technology was picked up, the company will still […]... →