Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, laying out Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that entails. Speaking at the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum, he articulated the company vision. Key to this was not only finding ways to secure the key elements of the Microsoft ecosystem —… Read More... →

Microsoft has laid out plans to bolster enterprise security and help its customers “evolve their security” for what it calls the “mobile-first, cloud-first world.” Talking at the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum in Washington, D.C., today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “new approach” to security, while addressing many facets of the problem it and other […]... →

Hootsuite has further integrated its social media management platform with Microsoft’s suite of products. Starting today, data will be shared between Hootsuite and Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, and Yammer. The expectation is that team members will not longer have access to this data in a silo, but can make use of real-time conversations to enhance […]... →

Microsoft wants to pique the curiosity of future-gazing sci-fi fans with a new book of short stories inspired by the company’s early-stage research work. Available as an e-book for Kindle, Kobo, iBooks, among other popular e-reading platforms, “Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Stories Inspired by Microsoft” is a compendium of stories covering machine learning, quantum […]... →

ANALYSIS: News broke today that Rdio is effectively shutting down: The 5-year-old company is filing for bankruptcy and competitor Pandora is swooping in to buy “key assets” for $75 million. It’s a sad day, but anyone who has been watching the online music market knows that it was inevitable. Indeed, Rdio never disclosed user numbers, and […]... →

In a stunner today, Microsoft Corporate VP Bob Stutz reportedly stepped down from his job running Microsoft Dynamics CRM. MSDynamicsWorld broke the story, but R Ray Wang, who is principal at Constellation Research confirms that Stutz texted him this afternoon with the news. The memo went out today at 4 pm and Jujhar Singh, who has been a key player on the team, will be taking over for Stutz. Read More... →

If voice-based assistants are to become the primary way we interact with our devices now and in the future, then Google has just upped the ante in the battle between its own voice search functionality and that of rival mobile assistants like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana. While Google’s app has historically done a better job at understanding its users and answering… Read More... →

Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to bring affordable Internet access to underserved parts of the globe with the launch of a new fund that will invest in companies that are solving problems associated with bringing the Internet to the 4 billion people worldwide who are still disconnected. The fund will aid in entrepreneurial efforts focused on last-mile access technologies, cloud-based… Read More... →

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Code.org that will see Minecraft arrive on the education agenda. Mojang, the Sweden-based game development studio that shot to prominence due to its work on Minecraft, was acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion last year. Founded in 2013, Code.org is a non-profit organization that seeks to encourage computer science […]... →

Компания Яндекс сообщила о появлении в веб-версии Яндекс.Диска редактора документов. Теперь пользователи могут изменять сохраненный на Диске документ или создать новый: текстовый файл, таблицу или презентацию. Никаких дополнительных программ не требуется - редактор работает прямо в браузере. Редактор включает в себя три приложения: Word Online, Excel Online и PowerPoint Online из облачного офисного пакета Microsoft. Все правки, которые пользователь вносит в документ, автоматически записываются на Диск, и д... →

Американцы подключили свои редактора для работы с офисными документами двум главным кнопкам Рунета. Русский "МойОфис" Яндекс и Mail.ru не заинтересовал.... →

«Яндекс» договорился об использовании продуктов Microsoft Office в качестве редактора документов в своём сервисе хранения файлов «Яндекс.Диск», сообщили vc.ru в компании. В этот же день Mail.Ru Group объявила об интеграции сервисов Microsoft Office в свою почту и хранилище «Облако Mail.ru».... →

Microsoft has launched a new fund for startups and other commercial entities to help bring affordable Internet access to “underserved markets.” The new Affordable Access Initiative is open to any commercial company (i.e. not non-profits) with two or more full-time employees that already has a “working solution.” Microsoft said the solution(s) must: Leverage low-cost forms […]... →

GUEST: As anyone in Silicon Valley knows, engineering jobs are in high demand, but we’re going through a serious skills shortage. K-12 classroom technology education hasn’t kept up with the demand for qualified engineers, programmers and designers. Code.org, a consortium of big tech firms including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, last month made its case for reform […]... →

The Steam Machines PC gaming computers were pitched as a mighty alternative to Microsoft’s Windows when Valve announced them in January 2014. But when the company’s hardware partners announced their Steam Machines this week, only three of the original 14 vendors had products. Since 2014, Valve has been working to create the SteamOS, the Steam Controller, and Steam Link products […]... →

Microsoft today launched Office Insider, an ongoing preview program for Office 365 subscribers looking to test new features and improvements coming to the suite’s apps. Office Insider currently only applies to Office 2016 for Windows, which arrived just two months ago, though Microsoft says that a Mac version “is coming soon.” This is essentially the […]... →

At a Bing Ads event yesterday at Microsoft, Bing announced they are finally brining a desktop editor to Macs for Bing Ads. The expected release date is early summer of 2016, which is some way off...... →

Microsoft today announced the release of a new open-source machine learning toolkit that goes by the name DMTK. The toolkit contains a framework for training models on multiple servers, a topic modeling algorithm, and a word-embedding algorithm for natural language processing. It’s all out on GitHub under an MIT license. Using these tools, developers can […]... →

Master Chief delivered. Microsoft hasn’t had many wins this year when going head-to-head with Sony, but its biggest franchise still has the power to help it finish the fight. Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 in October according to NPD data shared with GamesBeat by Microsoft. The company provided us with the following statement from […]... →

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the Bing Mobile Friendliness Test Tool, a simple service that can analyze a website and tell you if it’s mobile-friendly based on the Microsoft Bing search engine’s standards and, if it’s not, what’s wrong with it. Bing began marking websites as mobile friendly in search results earlier in […]... →