Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

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... →

Lots of Apple news today! Incremental iPhone improvements, a gigantic new iPad, a less-creepy name for a new feature, a top-to-bottom-wow-hell-yes Apple TV revamp, and a bland musical performance that nobody ever watches. As always, it’s all faster, brighter, lighter, cooler, costlier, more colorful, and mostly leaked in advance. While everyone waits in line to play with the Microsoft Surf–uh… […]... →

Apple announced a new iPad today at its media event. Yes, the iPad Pro is real, matching the various leaked statistics that have rattled around the media-scape for weeks. Pro users can pick up an external keyboard, and a stylus that Apple calls Pencil (capital P, of course). If that sounds familiar, it should. Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 can be kitted out in similar fashion, though its… Read More... →

В последней версии (6.8) поискового приложения Baidu появится виртуальный ассистент под именем Du Secretary. Об этом компания заявила на 10 ежегодной конференции Baidu World, которая состоялась в Пекине. Функционал помощника разработан на основе технологии искусственного интеллекта. «Виртуальный ассистент будет обрабатывать запросы по широкому спектру услуг, таких как заказ еды или покупка билетов в кинотеатр, в виде простого и естественного диалога. Он также будет предлагать рекомендации по услугам, основа... →

Участники акселерационной программы ФРИИ и Microsoft проекты«Техновизор» и «Турбодилер» получили «облачные гранты» на услуги Microsoft Azure в размере от $120 тысяч до $360 тысяч. Об этом Firrma сообщили во ФРИИ. «Техновизор» — система контроля водителей и погрузчиков на складе. Помогает торговым компаниям, имеющим парк складской техники, снизить количество столкновений и повысить эффективность работы водителей погрузчиков при помощи устройства, которое крепится на погрузчик и передает данные о работе на ко... →

Team communication software startup Slack today announced the availability of a public beta of a version of its app for Windows Phone. The app is live now in the Microsoft Store. It’s not perfect, though. Slack mentions several known issues in the release notes for the app. Here’s one, for example: “The application may not […]... →

Ah, the Apple press cycle, when other technology companies either try to preempt Cupertino’s news, or bury their own nasty bits inside of the media whirlwind. Today, Microsoft announced several things relating to the enterprise that come, it appears, only a few dozen hours before Apple announces a new iPad, aimed at corporate customers. The Redmond-based software shop has formed a deal… Read More... →