Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Skype lets you send files, photos, video messages, emoticons, and even Unicode characters, but not emojis. Instead of doing the logical thing and adding support for emojis, the Microsoft-owned company has decided to create its own “brand new way to express yourself” — Skype today launched a new feature called Skype Mojis, which it describes […]... →

Skype lets you send files, photos, video messages, emoticons, and even Unicode characters, but not emojis. Instead of doing the logical thing and adding support for emoji, the Microsoft-owned company has decided to create its own “brand new way to express yourself” — Skype today launched a new feature called Skype Mojis, which it describes […]... →

Microsoft today announced the availability of a new preview build of Windows 10 Mobile for Windows Insiders. The new update — Build 10536, following Build 10512 from last month — consists mainly of bug fixes, but adds some handy new features, too. An update to the Photos app introduces a folder view that makes it easy to see […]... →

Комиссия Федеральной антимонопольной службы признала действия Google Inc. и Google Ireland ltd. нарушением части 1 статьи 10 закона«О защите конкуренции», сообщает «Интерфакс». В ближайшие 10 дней, ведомство подготовит решение и предписание о прекращении злоупотребления доминирующим положением и отправит сторонам. В феврале ФАС возбудила дело в отношении Google по жалобе российской интернет-компании «Яндекс». «Яндекс» заявил, что американская корпорация диктует свои условия производителям мобильных устройст... →

As expected, Microsoft will host a hardware-focused event on October 6. The company released invites this morning. The shindig may include news concerning the HoloLens ‘nerd helmet,’ the long-expected Surface Pro 4, the Microsoft Band 2, and, of course, new Lumia smartphone handsets1. Here’s an extract from the invite as it came today: The event should give Microsoft a shot… Read More... →

Microsoft today sent out media invites to an October 6 event in NYC. The company says it has “some exciting news to share about Windows 10 devices.” Rumors have been circulating for months that Microsoft plans to unveil new phones (Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL) next month, along with successors to its Surface and Band […]... →

Microsoft has bought Double Labs, a startup that developed Echo Notification Lockscreen, a free lockscreen app for Android. Microsoft confirmed the deal to VentureBeat today following a report on the news from Business Insider. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The startup appears to have been very small. Yin Yin Wu and Xuwen Cao, its […]... →

Cyanogen, the startup behind the Android-based Cyanogen mobile operating system, is working with Microsoft on a major integration of Microsoft’s Cortana personal digital assistant for Cyanogen OS, if a report today is to be believed. But Microsoft wouldn’t confirm the information. Cyanogen is “working with Microsoft to deeply integrate Cortana into the next version of […]... →

After a concerned Windows user wrote in to the Inquirer, reports blew up this week that Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 installation files onto users’ machines without them reserving a copy of the new operating system. We reached out to the company to set the record straight; we confirmed that this occurs merely when Automatic […]... →

Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo can all breathe a sigh of relief. Apple had the living room video game console makers in its gun sights, but it didn’t pull the trigger. True to Steve Jobs’ legendary disdain for games, Apple stopped short of fully endorsing games on its new Apple TV product, and it didn’t load […]... →

На презентации в Сан-Франциско Apple представил новую версию проигрывателя потокового мультимедиа Apple TV, в которую будет интегрирован голосовой помощник Siri. Сейчас этот функционал доступен лишь пользователям смартфонов. После нажатия на кнопку «Siri» на пульте дистанционного управления устройства и фразы «Привет, Siri», пользователи смогут производить поиск по контенту приложений и получать нужную информацию на экране во время просмотра фильма или прослушивания музыки. Во время демонстрации нового фу... →

Microsoft has been granted a patent for technology that converts the 3D scan data collected by the Kinect gaming sensor into a real physical replica of the scanned object. The Kinect has been hugely popular as a gaming interface. It scans, with great accuracy, the movements of a player’s body and translates them into character movements […]... →

Years ago, it was probably easier for a developer to create a game: you just had to worry about building for game consoles — yes, you did have to deal with how it would play on the Nintendo, Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, and maybe even the Sega Genesis and PC. But fast forward to today […]... →

A study by Brandwatch says that Twitter users used the #AppleEvent hashtag more than 217,000 times around Apple’s big product announcement event yesterday, and that the tweets came fastest when Microsoft took the stage during the event. The moment when the most #AppleEvent tweets appeared was when Microsoft’s VP of Office products Kirk Koenigsbauer took the stage to […]... →

Microsoft today announced a few updates from its Azure public cloud’s Media Services division. Most importantly, the Live Encoding service for encoding live streaming video feeds will become generally available to customers in the next few weeks, following a preview in the past few months. “Live Encoding allows you to send a single bitrate live […]... →

Your Xbox One is going to have a lot of new features soon. Microsoft detailed on Xbox Wire everything it’s adding to the console via a November system update. Notably, the Xbox One will support backward compatibility with over 100 Xbox 360 games. You’ll be able to use Xbox One features like live-streaming and screenshot-taking […]... →

The next browser battle is upon us. Google Chrome recently passed 1 billion users, Mozilla revealed big changes are coming to Firefox, and Windows 10 is out, which means it’s time to test Microsoft Edge. In July, we benchmarked the beta browsers. Now Edge has been out for more than a month, and its two […]... →

Microsoft announced this morning the official launch date for the long-anticipated new version of Microsoft Office: Office 2016 will be broadly available starting on September 22, the company says. Meanwhile, Office Customers with volume licensing agreements will be able to download the software on October 1st. The updated version of Office includes a number of new features for desktop… Read More... →

We knew it was coming, but Microsoft has now officially confirmed that Office 2016 will be “broadly available” from September 22. The full public launch comes after many months of iteration, with the software available in private preview, followed by developers and IT Pros. While Office 2016 has technically been open to anyone via a […]... →

Компания Advаnced Dental Cloud получил «облачный грант» от Microsoft в размере $129 тысяч на использование платформы Microsoft Azure. Об этом Firrma сообщили в ИТ-парке, резидентом которого является Advаnced Dental Cloud. Грант касается хостинга сайтов, администрирования приложений, аналитики сайтов, предоставления удаленных рабочих мест для разработчиков и технической поддержки. За счет гранта от Microsoft компания намерена повысить свою рентабельность. Advаnced Dental Cloud — SaaS-сервис для моделирования... →