Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

The PC industry had a big week. Microsoft debuted several news devices built to run its new Windows 10 operating system, garnering a more-positive press cycle than I anticipated. The software giant also announced that 110 million devices now ran the new operating system, a number that it seems proud of. The glow stemming from all of that was tempered a few days later by the release of new… Read More... →

В России пройдут образовательные хакатоны, приуроченные к старту приема заявок на международный конкурс Imagine Cup 2016.... →

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta crunch down on Friday. Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about Jack Dorsey’s return to Twitter and the launch of Moments, Microsoft’s massive hardware event and Pandora scoops up TicketFly. Also, our host Matt Lynley continues… Read More... →

North Korean Windows fans, rejoice! Microsoft announced today that a Windows update coming on Oct. 20 will allow Windows users to align their PCs with the recently announced North Korea time zone. “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has implemented its own time zone with UTC +8:30,” Microsoft wrote today in a short post on its […]... →

Did you miss us? The Gadgets Podcast has been fully interrupted by TC Disrupt and subsequent TC Meetups in various cities, but what is dead may never die. Or, put more simply, we’re back. Today, we’re discussing the latest news out of Google and Microsoft, which includes plenty of hardware: phones, gaming consoles, tablets, and I hear there is even a special new pen. We discuss… Read More... →

Microsoft has already done some magical work to get Xbox 360 games running on its Xbox One system, but now the company wants to bring those classics to another one of its primary platforms. Xbox boss Phil Spencer said that he wants to play Xbox 360 games on PC. In an interview with Gizmodo Brazil, […]... →

This week, Microsoft announced new hardware, Twitter finally got a permanent CEO, and Facebook confirmed it is working on augmented reality. Here in the TechCrunch studio, we talked about India’s massive mobile market with Mohit Aron on Bullish, and our video team took a trip to the DogVacay HQ on TC Cribs. These are the biggest stories of the week. 1. Microsoft held a massive… Read More... →

Windows 10 launched on July 29, and it’s still not done. It’s never going to be done, according to Microsoft. Because it’s difficult to review an operating system that is being developed as a service, our review is going to get major updates, just like the operating system. We already told you our thoughts after […]... →

The executive who oversees Microsoft’s developer tools and services, S. Somasegar, has announced that he will leave the company after 27 years. In a series of tweets, Somasegar, who is usually called by his nickname Soma, said he plans to pursue other career opportunities. Read More... →

Во время конференции Code/Mobile глава команды Поиска Google Амит Сингхал (Amit Singhal) заявил, что летом количество мобильных поисков в Google впервые превысило десктопные. По словам Сингхала, ежемесячно Google обрабатывает свыше 100 млрд мобильных поисковых запросов. Эта цифра особенно впечатляет, учитывая, что руководитель имел в виду лишь устройства с экраном меньше 6 дюймов. Во время интервью Сингхал также говорил о будущем поисковых продуктов компании. В настоящее время Google по-прежнему лидирует... →

Cortana isn’t officially coming to Xbox One until 2016, but some of you can try it out right now. Some gamers were bummed to find out that Microsoft won’t officially launch its Cortana voice assistant for Xbox One with the New Xbox One Experience update in November (read our hands-on with NXOE right here). The […]... →

Microsoft this week unveiled its flagship Windows 10 Mobile devices: the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL smartphones. While the response to the devices was mildly positive, that all came crashing down when Windows Phone fans in the U.S. learned there was rumored carrier exclusivity in the works. We reached out to Microsoft and the company […]... →

Switch Communications came out in January as a cloud communications platform that works well in businesses that use the Google suite of productivity products. But the company now says its platform integrates well with all productivity suites, including Office 365. “It’s a significant departure for the team that created Google Voice and launched Switch as ‘the […]... →

The Xbox One is about a month away from getting a major overhaul, but we’ve got an early look and want to give you an idea of what to expect. The New Xbox One Experience (NXOE), as Microsoft calls it, is something of a mea culpa. It is Microsoft admitting that it got some major […]... →

S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, is leaving the company. Microsoft confirmed the news with VentureBeat but wouldn’t share any details surrounding the departure. ZDNet was first to break the story, noting that Microsoft cloud and enterprise executive vice president Scott Guthrie announced internally today that Somasegar would be leaving […]... →

Microsoft организовала конкурс Hacking Mars на создание средства, которое могло бы спасти героя фильма «Марсианин» Марка Уотни, затерявшегося в буре во время эвакуации с Марса на Землю. Об этом vc.ru рассказали представители компании.Победители смогут посетить штаб-квартиру Microsoft с возможностью протестировать разработку компании — компьютер дополненной реальности HoloLens. Среди других призов — устройства, представленные на последней презентации корпорациии, — планшет Surface, игровая консоль Xbox One, ... →

Команды, которые по итогам хакатонов станут участниками конкурса Imagine Cup, будут приняты в преакселератор ФРИИ... →

6 октября корпорация Microsoft провела очередную презентацию своих новых продуктов, на которой представила, в том числе, свой первый ноутбук — Surface Book, о котором многие уважаемые издания отозвались как о потенциальном «убийце Macbook».Издание Business Insider полагает, что Microsoft хочет добиться того, чтобы её ставили в один ряд с Apple — и для индустрии это шаг вперёд. Редакция vc.ru собрала ещё несколько мнений о том, сможет ли Surface Book изменить индустрию производства компьютеров.... →

В рекламном ролике «умного» браслета Microsoft Band компания показала телефон с логотипом Microsoft и элементами интерфейса iPhone.... →

Microsoft didn’t talk much about Windows 10 Mobile, aside from unveiling the first devices that will run it (Lumia 950, Lumia 950XL, and Lumia 550). The company did slip out a timeframe for when the new operating system would arrive for existing Windows Phone devices, via the official Lumia page on Facebook (as spotted by […]... →