Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Get ready for Yammer, Microsoft announced today – and it’s not kidding. Microsoft said this afternoon it will begin to activate Yammer for all its eligible Office 365 business customers starting today, in what’s a major push for the enterprise social networking service. The rollout will come in waves, beginning with those customers who have a business subscription, and… Read More... →

Microsoft today is announcing that its Yammer enterprise social network will now be turned on by default for all eligible commercial customers of Office 365 suite of services. Until this point, Office 365 administrators had to set up Yammer in order to allow employees to use the service. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion in […]... →

Mobile collaboration app Zula, co-founded by noted investor Jeff Pulver in 2013, won the Audience award at TC Disrupt a few years ago, and a seed round From Microsoft Ventures. From there things didn’t quite pan out, and now the company has pivoted into a new product that aims to “make podcasting accessible to the masses.” ZCast claims to allow anyone to produce a high… Read More... →

Valve updated its Hardware & Software Survey today for January, revealing that more than one in every three gamers on Steam is now using Windows 10. The latest and greatest from Microsoft may have just passed 11 percent market share, but on Steam the adoption rate is already at 34 percent. In its first month, […]... →

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Microsoft has begun to encourage people running Windows 7 and 8.1 users to install Windows 10 as a “Recommended Update” in the Windows Update application. A few months ago Microsoft said that it would start to do this “early” in 2016, and now it’s happening. “As we shared in late October on the Windows Blog, […]... →

Ubisoft isn’t done testing its upcoming online shooter, according to a leak from one of Microsoft’s social-media accounts. Xbox One will get an open beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division starting February 16, according to official Xbox Italy Facebook page (as first caught by Eurogamer). The test will allegedly run through February 21. Unlike the […]... →

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Six months after its release, Windows 10 has finally passed 10 percent market share. Not only that, but the latest and greatest version from Microsoft has also overtaken Windows 8.1 and Windows XP, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. Windows 10 was installed on over 75 million PCs in its first four weeks, […]... →

Microsoft today unveiled Project Natick, a fascinating research initiative that could bring cloud computing infrastructure closer to big cities near large bodies of water — by putting data centers underwater. Microsoft isn’t running any Web services, like Office 365, through data center infrastructure inside of these capsules. But Microsoft did build one (named Leona Philpot, […]... →

Microsoft and developer Iron Galaxy are keeping the teases coming for the new season of downloadable content for Killer Instinct. It looks like the Halo character Arbiter is coming to Microsoft’s free-to-play fighting game. Developer Iron Galaxy teased the power-sword wielding character during the Killer Instinct World Cup tournament that is happening right now in San […]... →

Former Cisco executive Padmasree Warrior is resigning from cloud file syncing and sharing service Box’s board of directors, effective on Sunday, January 31, according to a regulatory filing the company posted today. She joined the board in March 2014. The news comes just less than two months after Warrior was elected to Microsoft’s board of […]... →

Apple втайне сформировала большую команду специалистов в области виртуальной и дополненной реальности для создания устройства, которое может стать конкурентом Oculus Rift или Microsoft Hololens. Об этом сообщает Financial Times со ссылкой на источники, знакомые с ситуацией.... →

Microsoft announced its Q2 2016 results yesterday, reporting strong performance for its cloud business and leading to a stock bump in the wake of the news. Its Surface tablet hardware business also performed well. However it’s an entirely different story for the unloved phone-making business — that albatross around Satya Nadella’s neck… Read More... →

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Google AdWords объявил о прекращении поддержки всех версий браузера Internet Explorer, кроме актуальной – IE 11. «Начиная с 7 марта 2016 года, AdWords будет поддерживать только Explorer 11. Если для доступа к сервису вы используете IE 10, мы советуем вам обновить его до последней версии или перейти на другой поддерживаемый браузер», - сообщается в Google+. Изменение призвано обеспечить пользователям сервиса наилучший опыт. Со списком всех поддерживаемых браузеров можно ознакомиться по ссылке. Напомним, ... →

Vulcan, the investment firm of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, features a practice area that aims to “reduce our impact on the environment, particularly local watershed and ocean habitats.” So you can imagine it more than a little embarrassing when Allen’s 300-foot yacht, Tatoosh, was accused yesterday of destroying a coral reef in the Cayman Islands that has been in… Read More... →

Microsoft doesn’t share its hardware numbers anymore, but it sure does have a lot of people using its online gaming service. Xbox Live has 48 million monthly active players, according to Microsoft’s report for the second quarter of its fiscal 2016. That is up 30 percent year-over-year. “It was a strong holiday season for Microsoft […]... →

Microsoft today reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2016 (I know, that’s weird, but Microsoft’s financial year ends in June). The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $25.7 billion for the last quarter and $0.78 of adjusted per-share profit. Wall Street expected Microsoft to deliver an EPS of $0.71 on revenue of $25.26 billion. In the year-ago quarter, the… Read More... →

Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2016, including revenue of $25.69 billion and earnings per share of $0.78. Analysts had expected the company to earn $25.26 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0.71. Microsoft’s stock was up 1.63 percent in regular trading. In after-hours, however, the company is up […]... →