Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

VB EVENT: We’re throwing a party and we’d like you to come. MobileBeat 2015 is Monday and Tuesday July 13-14 in downtown San Francisco and it’s almost full up. Currently over 900 people are coming. That includes attendees from brands like Adidas and Staples, and tech heavyweights such as Twitter, Google, and Facebook. Top leaders from Microsoft, Vevo, […]... →

TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures Digital Works Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 4:00 p.m. PDT. This is the second class from Microsoft Ventures’s Seattle Accelerator where 14 startups received mentorship, technology guidance and a $25,000 check with no strings or equity attached. For this cohort, the… Read More... →

This week on CrunchWeek, we sat down to dig into the hottest stories from the last seven days: Microsoft’s massive writedown and layoffs, Facebook’s addition of new controls to users’ News Feeds, and Reddit’s community meltdown. Read More... →

Microsoft has announced the release of an updated build for its Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview.... →

This week Microsoft laid off 7,800 employees, GoPro announced its next action camera, and Reddit screwed up, big time. These are the stories you’ll need to stay up to date on the latest tech news. Read More... →

Microsoft has decided to retire its Photosynth mobile apps. The company explains the move by saying its latest Photosynth Preview tool “is a more immersive way to capture a place than the spherical panoramas that our apps produce.” Photosynth was born out of Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington. The tool analyzes digital […]... →

Microsoft for the first time today talked about a fascinating new research initiative: machine teaching. The technology giant is looking for people who can teach computers how to perform machine learning, which can make software smarter over time. Toward that end, Microsoft Research has assembled the Machine Teaching Group, comprising people who are skilled in […]... →

Microsoft today announced that Power BI, the company’s cloud-hosted self-service business intelligence service, will hit general availability on July 24. Power BI originally launched as part of Office 365 back in July 2013. Since then, the company has completely revamped the service and the new version has been in preview for quite a while now. Now, Microsoft is taking both Power BI and… Read More... →

In a blog post published this morning, Microsoft’s Joseph Sirosh, corporate vice president at Microsoft, who is in charge of Azure ML, announced the public preview of the Azure Data Catalog, an in-house tool to enable discovery of a company’s data sources. Azure ML is Microsoft’s machine learning platform, which was launched last February. As companies create various… Read More... →

Релиз операционной системы Windows 10 от Microsoft не остановит продолжающегося более трёх лет падения мирового рынка ПК и пройдёт на фоне роста доли компьютеров Apple. К такому выводу пришли аналитики компаний Gartner и IDC, специализирующихся на изучении отраслевых показателей технологической индустрии.... →

Microsoft has posted a bit of CG describing what it will feel like to use the HoloLens, their augmented reality helmet, in real life. The resulting video, shot at Case Western Reserve University, shows doctors examining bodies as they float in midair, creating a new way to teach anatomy. The resulting interaction – pinching to hide images, swiping through musculature – is… Read More... →

Microsoft announced an update to its Azure cloud computing platform today. This update includes the launch of a couple of new features for developers who want to run large-scale, compute-intensive applications on the platform, as well as new features for Azure Site Recovery that will make it easier for developers to migrate to Azure from AWS. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the release of a new preview build of Windows 10 for people enrolled in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program, ahead of the official release of Windows 10 on July 29. The big deal here in build 10166 is the inclusion of the Microsoft Wi-Fi app. Details of Microsoft Wi-Fi […]... →

Microsoft today released the new version of its productivity suite for Mac users with the debut of Office 2016 for Mac. The updated software is first being made available to Office 365 subscribers, the company says – meaning those who have either an Office 365 Home, Personal, Business, Business Premium, E3 or ProPlus subscription. A standalone version will not become available… Read More... →

Ресурс Bookstck собрал список книг, которые рекомендовали к прочтению или упоминали известные ИТ-предприниматели в своих интервью, заметках и обзорах.ЦП публикует список произведений, которые рекомендовал основатель Microsoft Билл Гейтс.... →

Office 2016 for Mac is here before Office 2016 for Windows.... →

Microsoft is tempting more developers to build for its fitness-tracking wristband with new Microsoft Band Web Tiles and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs.... →

The Digital Reader found an interesting email sent to international Nook users about the Nook app for Windows. Essentially it informs international Nook users outside the US or the UK that their content will be removed from Windows machines and their money refunded. “We recently announced that Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have agreed to terminate their commercial… Read More... →

Пользователи соцсетей вынудили корпорацию Microsoft удалить инфографику о «типичном разработчике софта», на которой представитель этой профессии был изображён, как бородатый мужчина. Рисунок раскритиковали за стереотипность и посчитали оскорбительным.... →

Сервис Google App Engine для языка программирования Go стал доступен всем разработчикам. В течение последних четырех лет сервис функционировал в бета-версии без гарантий обеспечения безотказной работы. Google также продолжит развивать язык с открытым кодом Go. Разработчики стремятся сделать App Engine лучшей платформой для работы программистов с этим языком. Google App Engine является частью облачной платформы Google, которая конкурирует с другими публичными облачными платформами, такими как Amazon Web Ser... →