Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Remember Windows 95? I mean, how could you not? Oh, you’re under 30? Yeah, then you probably don’t remember Windows 95. Its launch was a glorious day, it stood for the rise of graphical interfaces that we’ve come to known and love. Its launch also featured The Rolling Stones. Specifically, their song “Start Me Up.” You know, like the “Start” button.… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the availability of the IT Preview for its SharePoint Server 2016 document-sharing and collaboration software for deployments in companies’ on-premises data centers. Updates include a new 10GB maximum for files that users upload, a new app launcher, a simpler file-sharing mechanism, and a tool that keeps users from sending certain documents outside […]... →

After a private beta and a few leaks, Microsoft today launched the first public beta of its Siri- and Google Now-like Cortana personal assistant for Android. Microsoft describes the Cortana app as a “companion to your Windows 10 PC” that extends the service’s functionality across any device you carry (which, of course, implicitly acknowledges that you’re very unlikely… Read More... →

Microsoft today launched Cortana for Android phones as a public beta that anyone can download. To try it out, all you have to do is become a tester using this Google Play link. In May, Microsoft revealed that its digital assistant Cortana would be coming to Android and iOS. Last month, a beta build of […]... →

Tech companies are suffering from the current hostile stock market environment as stock markets around the world are plummeting following concerns over China. All tech companies are tanking right now, with some suffering from a stark correction. When the stock markets opened, compared to Friday’s closing price, Facebook was down 12.1 percent to $75.62, Apple was down 10 percent to… Read More... →

MS решил поставить точку в дискуссиях о том, "что передаёт хозяину Windows 10?" Тоже самое, что и остальные операционки компании.... →

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Dropbox is perhaps one of the companies in the toughest position in Silicon Valley right now. The company has been a darling in the eyes of the tech industry, rising to a $10 billion valuation as of last year. But since then, the company has found its online storage business under attack from all sides from giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft. There are dozens of questions for… Read More... →

The walls of text that make up the majority of end-user license agreements (EULA) are often difficult to parse, and this is leading to some confusion around Windows 10 and pirated games. Last week, eagle-eyed Windows 10 users noticed a line in the EULA for Microsoft services that many claimed would enable the company to […]... →

21 августа вице-спикер Госдумы Николай Левичев обратился к премьер-министру Дмитрию Медведеву с просьбой запретить использование операционной системы Windows 10 в российских органах власти, госкомпаниях и научно-исследовательских институтах. Инициатива политика стала уже третьей за несколько недель попыткой общественных деятелей ограничить распространение новой версии программного обеспечения Microsoft в стране. ЦП попытался разобраться, чем так не угодила ОС власти и что думают по этому поводу в самой ИТ-к... →

(By Andrew Chung, Reuters) – InterDigital has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license its technology considered essential to mobile phone communications, Microsoft said in a lawsuit on Thursday. The complaint against InterDigital, filed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, deepens a long-standing fight over patent licensing between the two […]... →

Microsoft today detailed an update to its Office for iOS apps that tighten the integration that Outlook has with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new versions have been on Apple’s App Store since last week, but we’re only hearing about them now because Microsoft’s Office team apparently can’t write as quickly as it can code. […]... →

As a cloud identity management service, Okta collects tons of data about how its customers use other cloud products. Today it released its first Okta Business @ Work Report. Among the many compelling findings was that Microsoft’s Office 365 was the favorite cloud service overall so far this year. Okta is not alone in using the data it collects to generate reports. ZenDesk puts out… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the debut of a new application programming interface (API) that developers can use to bring the expertise of Bing into their apps. The launch of the new Bing knowledge and action graph API is significant — search giant Google hasn’t made its knowledge graph available to developers. So this isn’t just any […]... →

Microsoft today is introducing a major new capability to its Bing Search app for Android. Now when you want more information on the people, places, and things you’re reading about, you can hold down the home button to get contextual information and take related actions courtesy of Bing, without switching apps. That feature might sound […]... →

Mesosphere, the company that aims to build a container-centric “operating system for the data center” based on the Apache Mesos project, is giving the first public demo of Mesos running on the preview version of Windows Server 2016 at MesosCon today. Read More... →

Wunderlist, that to-do app Microsoft picked up earlier this year through its acquisition of 6wunderkinder, today announced the availability of a beta version of its app for Windows 10. “That’s right, we’re so excited about our newest app to join the family, that we couldn’t wait to share the Beta with you!” Wunderlist wrote in […]... →

Microsoft today published the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. As promised, this is also the first version of Windows Server to natively support Windows Server Containers — that is, Microsoft’s version of Linux containers that can be managed both through Powershell and Docker’s command-line tools. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the availability of the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 software for virtualizing servers in companies’ on-premises data centers. This preview is significant because it’s the first time Microsoft is providing an implementation of its technology for running applications in containers instead of more traditional virtual machines (VMs). “Windows Server Containers […]... →

Главный исполнительный директор Foursquare Деннис Кроули (Dennis Crowley) на конференции GrowthBeat в Сан-Франциско рассказал, что количество зарегистрированных пользователей сервиса за 10 месяцев увеличилось на 5 миллионов и в настоящее время превысило 60 миллионов, при этом количество ежемесячно активных пользователей достигло 50 миллионов. Необычное соотношение показателей объясняется тем, что не все активные пользователи Foursquare зарегистрированы в сервисе. Количество подсказок Foursquare превысило ... →