Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees of the company.... →

Microsoft has released a new photo app designed to feel better about your selfies. It’s a simple service, really: you snap or choose a photo from your iPhone’s camera roll and then process it right in the app. Just like the editing features in Instagram, Microsoft Selfie (that’s the name of the app) is geared […]... →

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have very different app development strategies, in alignment with their respective business models. Last year, we took a look at the trio’s app stores to see how the three develop for each others’ competing platforms. We’re doing it again this year to see what, if anything, has changed. Up until last […]... →

Самыми крупными компаниями в мире по итогам 2015 года стали Apple, холдинг Alphabet, в который входит Google, и Microsoft. Такие данные приводит The Wall Street Journal, передаёт «Интерфакс».... →

Microsoft has confirmed an odd issue affecting some PCs with the latest version of its Skype communication software: messages showing up out of order. User Vulcan.C brought up the bug in a post on the Skype Community yesterday, writing that “when I get a [message] from someone or I reply to a [message], no [matter] […]... →

Every year, Christmas results in the highest number of new device activations and app installs. 2015 was no different, and once again Apple dominated the results. Just under half of device activations (49.1 percent) were for an Apple device this Christmas, down from 51.3 percent last year. This year, almost one in five were Samsung […]... →

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Remember when kids just peered out at the stars, trying to spot the lights of Santa’s sleigh (or Rudolph’s shiny nose)? Well, those days are long gone. Santa tracking once again has received its annual digital upgrade. Today, Microsoft and NORAD begin tracking Santa along with Google, on its own just-launched Santa Tracker website. Google’s site this year offers a… Read More... →

Competition never takes a holiday. And so, on Christmas Eve, we find Google and Microsoft renewing their annual Santa Tracker rivalry. Google has its own Santa Tracker, which went live today as the jolly fat man began his global trek. Google’s site detects your location and estimates St. Nick’s distance, along with a running tally […]... →

Фонд Развития Интернет-Инициатив (ФРИИ) вложит 15 млн рублей в сервис продажи подержанных автомобилей «Турбодилер». Эту информацию Firrma подтвердили в фонде. Первый инвестиционный займ на сумму 6,75 млн рублей на данный момент уже прошёл. Остальные подробности сделки не раскрываются. Изначально проект был запущен в 2012 году полностью в офлайне. В штате было 16 фотографов в городах-миллионниках, сотрудники вручную размещали заказы на 16 сайтах. В проект вложено 3 млн рублей основателей. В 2014 году «Турбод... →

Microsoft today announced several updates to its free Windows App Studio Beta web service for building Windows apps. Now there are new templates you can use to get started, tools for dropping ads into apps, and new ways to display content in apps. Microsoft first launched the tool in 2013, under the name Windows Phone […]... →

На месячных графиках суммарная доля ОС Microsoft упала ниже Android еще в ноябре.... →

We’re hearing a lot of chatter that Foursquare is in the process of raising a new fundraising round that will be a down round. The exact dollar value of what the company is raising, as well as the exact valuation of the round, couldn’t be learned but either way the company is looking at another haircut to its valuation. One source tells us that Microsoft, which participated in… Read More... →

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Cortana for Android and iOS in the U.S. and China. Not even two weeks later though, and the company has disabled the digital assistant’s hands-free feature on Android. “Hey Cortana” allows users to open Cortana and give her commands just by saying those two words. The feature is similar to […]... →

Microsoft is buying Talko, the mobile messaging startup founded by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect until 2010. The company says today the acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, involves the Talko technology and the team. Talko employees will now join Skype, while Talko itself is being shut down. Ozzie, however, will not be rejoining Microsoft as a part of… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired technology from Talko, a startup that build a mobile-friendly team communication app. Talko will be shutting down in the next several months, according to a note on the startup’s website, and “Today we’re announcing that Talko’s been acquired by Microsoft to help fuel future innovation in Skype and […]... →

Обозреватель vc.ru изучила истории основателей Github, Youtube, Twitter, GoPro, Microsoft, и вспомнила неудачные проекты, которыми они занимались до того, как создали известные компании.... →

Обозреватель vc.ru изучил историю развития и конкуренции самых популярных браузеров: как появился первый браузер Netscape, ставший затем основой для Mozilla Firefox, как представители Opera и Mozilla подавали в суд на Microsoft и как Google Chrome добился лидерства на рынке.... →

Windows Phone fans and fanboys have a tough job. They have to stand by an operating system with a new name every few years, significantly fewer apps than the competition, and a distant third place spot in the market. The latest news out of Microsoft isn’t making their lives any easier. This week, Microsoft failed […]... →

Goldman Sachs признал ошибочным прогноз 2013 года, когда рекомендовал продавать акции Microsoft. Инвестиционный банк повысил рейтинг акций компании с пункта «продать» до «нейтрального» уровня. С 4 ноября 2013 года котировки акций Microsoft выросли на 83%.... →