Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft today launched its Skype for Business app for Android out of preview. You can download the new app now directly from Google Play — Android users with Lync 2013 will be automatically updated to the Skype for Business app based on their device settings. Skype for Business arrived in April and got a dedicated […]... →

Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for Microsoft of course, but Danger co-founder Joe Britt is doing just fine. In fact he’s uncloaking his new startup today — one he’s presumably been ploughing some of his unspent Danger money into. Read More... →

Netflix has launched a new universal app for Windows 10, as the video-streaming giant becomes the latest in a line of companies to embrace Microsoft’s new operating system. Rebuilt from the ground up, the new Netflix app replaces the existing version in the Windows Store and they’re not hugely different at first glance, but it […]... →

Textio CEO Kieran Snyder always loved taking a quantitative approach to how language worked with her studies in linguistics. And when she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft to start a new company, it was only natural that it would be centered around language in some way. That’s how Textio, a startup that analyzes text for how well words and phrases perform in… Read More... →

Microsoft has expanded its organization structure to establish a philanthropic arm dedicated towards using technology to combat some of the world’s most challenging problems. Under company Vice President Mary Snapp, the group will work on focus on how to drive greater inclusion and “empowerment of people who do not yet have access to technology and the opportunities […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it has changed the name of its broadcast-oriented polling tool from Bing Pulse to Microsoft Pulse. The rebrand is meant to reflect that the tool now integrates with several Microsoft technologies, including Power BI, OneNote, and Azure Media Services. The launch comes a year after Bing Pulse hit version 2.0 with […]... →

Yahoo объявила о своём решении перевести в разряд открытых проектов веб-краулер Anthelion, созданный для парсинга структурированных данных из HTML-страниц. «Anthelion может быть нацелен на сканирование конкретных страниц. К примеру, содержащих микроразметку для фильмов», - пояснил представитель компании в анонсе на Tumblr. В прошлом году во время конференции в Шанхае сотрудники Yahoo Labs раскрыли некоторые детали по Anthelion в статье. «Мы – первые, кто представил идею краулера, основной задачей которог... →

Microsoft today announced a new private preview of the Custom Recognition Intelligence Service (CRIS), a highly customizable tool that can give applications Siri-like speech-to-text functionality. Also today, Microsoft is opening up public previews for two sets of application programming interfaces (APIs) that offer developers technology that can understand who’s talking in audio recordings and what […]... →

Российский фонд Titanium Investments повторно инвестировал в израильский стартап Cloudyn, который разработал сервис мониторинга облачной инфраструктуры. Объём раунда составил $11 млн. Возглавил сделку Carmel Ventures, текущими инвесторы RDseed и Titanium Investments также приняли участие. Всего компания привлекла $16,5 млн. Средства пойдут на расширение в другие регионы. В 2016 году компания планирует открыть офис в США. В сентябре Cloudyn привлек $4 млн в рамках инвестиционного раунда серии А. Раунд возгла... →

Cloudyn, a startup with a cloud service that shows how much money you’re spending on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has taken on an $11 million round of funding. In addition to offering granular information on how much your infrastructure deployment costs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine, Cloudyn […]... →

One of the more interesting parts of the Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality initiative is the way Microsoft is listening to the public to direct some of its early-stage app development for the platform, through the Share Your Idea website launched earlier this month. One of the top three ideas on the site, based on votes, […]... →

Microsoft announced changes today to OneDrive’s storage limits, partially undoing unpopular amendments it detailed this November. The new rules include refunds for unhappy customers, more storage for select free users, and in some cases, a free, one-year subscription to Office 365 Personal. Read More... →

Microsoft today issued an apology for its OneDrive trainwreck. The company is backpedaling slightly on the downgrades announced in November, but not the removal of unlimited storage. In other words, the situation is still a clusterfuck. Now it’s just a slightly less shitty clusterfuck. In October 2014, Microsoft removed the 1TB limit on its OneDrive […]... →

The evidence is piling up. Sony’s grip on the console business with the PlayStation 4 is starting to look unbreakable. Microsoft has to start worrying about whether it must accept and acknowledge its fate of being permanently stuck at No. 2 in this generation. And Nintendo can’t move to its new NX game console soon […]... →

Microsoft Research has come in first place in several categories for the sixth annual ImageNet image recognition competition. Technology from Microsoft was able to outperform systems from Google, Intel, Qualcomm, and Tencent, as well as entries from startups and academic labs, according to the results. The winning system from Microsoft researchers Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, […]... →

Sony and Microsoft went into the gift-giving holiday battle armed with deals and bundles, but only one console could come out on top. PlayStation 4 sold better than Xbox One in November. Here’s the full statement from Sony marketing boss Eric Lempel: “PlayStation 4 is the top selling console in the United States during the month […]... →

Microsoft usually decides which games it will make next by asking its own game developers. But today, the company’s Microsoft Casual Games division said it will ask fans what games they want the division to make next. It’s not just a focus group. Rather, Microsoft is going to take votes and tally them up. The […]... →

Elastic announced today that it was deepening its relationship with Microsoft by adding its open source and commercial products to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Elastic (which used to be known as ElasticSearch) has been working with Microsoft for some time. It runs search on MSN.com, is embedded in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and also built into the Azure framework. With today’s… Read More... →

The adoption of carrier billing got another boost today when Microsoft announced it had partnered with Sprint and San Francisco-based Boku to enable U.S. customers to make purchases from the Windows Store. While Windows phones are still struggling to gain traction, it’s notable that customers will be able to use carrier billing to make purchases […]... →

Microsoft is introducing a handful of new features to its Microsoft Band wearable, and will now let you control your music, receive activity reminders, and more. First announced in early October, the $249 Microsoft Band 2 is a follow-up to the original incarnation launched a year earlier. Featuring a curved display, the second version offered […]... →