Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Amazon this week took its enterprise-aimed email and calendaring service called WorkMail out of preview mode. The product, which first debuted a year ago, is based on Amazon Web Services and is meant to sub in for legacy solutions, like Microsoft Exchange. However, instead of competing with client software like Microsoft Outlook, WorkMail integrates with it, as it does with as with Apple Mail,… Read More... →

With Windows 10 now running on more than 200 million devices, Microsoft is expanding its partnership with mobile payments company Bango to bring carrier-billing to more consumers. Founded out of Cambridge, U.K., in 1999, Bango is one of a number of platforms that serve to make it easier for companies to charge people for online […]... →

Начиная с 1 января 2016 года, результаты платной и органической выдачи Bing полностью интегрировались в AOL и будут отображаться на всех устройствах и во всех регионах присутствия поисковой системы. Помимо органических результатов выдачи, на площадках AOL будет транслироваться вся поисковая и медийная реклама, размещаемая на платформе Microsoft. Результаты сделки, по данным comScore, позволят Microsoft «завладеть» 1/3 доли веб-поиска в США. По данным на ноябрь 2015, доля веб-поиска Bing составляла не менее... →

Posted by randfishIt's that magical time where, once again, I examine my predictions for the year that's just ended, and make new ones for the one ahead. As is my personal tradition, I'm going to first look at the accuracy of what I've suggested would happen in 2015. Based on how I've done, you can get a sense of how seriously to take my ideas for the future. But, if you'd prefer, you can just skip right to the 2016 predictions. For posterity, here's my post from January 6, 2015, but I won't make you go thr... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the biggest public cloud currently available, today announced the general availability of the WorkMail email and calendar service, nearly a year after the service was first launched in preview. Think of WorkMail as Amazon’s answer to Exchange from Microsoft, which fields the competing Azure cloud infrastructure, and Gmail from Google, which […]... →

Microsoft this morning announced promising numbers related to the growth and traction of its Windows 10 operating system. The company confirmed today that Windows 10 is now running on over 200 million monthly active devices worldwide, and is also the fastest-growing release of any version of the Windows operating system ever. Said Microsoft, Windows 10 growth has outpaced Windows 7 by nearly… Read More... →

Windows 10 may have ended 2015 with under 10 percent market share, but Microsoft is starting off the new year with a strong announcement: Windows 10 is now installed on over 200 million devices. It took the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft less than six months to hit the new milestone. Microsoft has […]... →

Цена коробочных версий Windows на физических носителях остаётся прежней. То есть стоимость первого шага для вхождения на платформу Microsoft не изменилась.... →

Чтобы поместить на первое место продукцию Microsoft придётся сделать немыслимый фокус на калькуляторе, а софт Google, например Android, на фоне конкурентов совсем безопасный.... →

Microsoft users will now be notified if a state-sponsored attacker tries to break into their accounts, the company said in a blog post. The announcement comes the same day as a Reuters report that Microsoft did not warn Hotmail users their email accounts had been accessed by a group associated with the Chinese government. Read More... →

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... →