Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Корпорация Microsoft объявила о передаче своего бизнеса по продаже рекламы на сайтах медиахолдингу AOL, владеющему TechCrunch, Engadget и The Huffington Post и компании AppNexus. В ходе трансформации будет уволено около 1200 сотрудников, сообщает Bloomberg... →

AOL станет селлером рекламы Microsoft и откажется от технологий Google в своём поиске.... →

Во время обсуждения сделки Microsoft и AOL вице-президент Microsoft Рик ван дер Куи (Rik van der Kooi) заявил: «Мы глубоко преданы поиску. Мы считаем бизнес, который мы создавали в течение последних шести лет, устойчивым и самостоятельным». До сих пор представители Microsoft не сообщали, что Bing зарабатывает деньги как самостоятельный бизнес. Однако Рик ван дер Куи подтвердил: «Это многомиллиардный бизнес, и он окупится прямо сейчас. Наша приверженность Bing очень глубока, и поэтому для нас важно продолж... →

AOL и Microsoft достигли соглашения о рекламном и поисковом сотрудничестве сроком на 10 лет. По условиям сделки, AOL будет продавать медийную рекламу Microsoft, включая мобильную и видеорекламу, на 9 самых крупных рынках. Поиск AOL будет работать на базе технологии Bing, который сменит на этой позиции Google. Договорённости вступят в силу 1 января 2016 года. Медийная реклама Microsoft по-прежнему будет транслировать медийную рекламу на собственных ресурсах: MSN, Outlook, Xbox и Skype. Однако теперь компан... →

Google loses deal it held since 2002, but AOL matters far less than it once did. The post Microsoft Signs 10-Year Deal For AOL To Use Bing’s Ads & Listings appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

Microsoft’s Bing division will provide search and display advertising capability for AOL’s portfolio of websites in nine countries for the next 10 years, Microsoft announced today in a blog post. Previously, Google provided these services for AOL. As a result of the deal, sales and trade marketing employees will go from Microsoft to AOL, whose […]... →

Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs today. The build includes Microsoft Edge branding, general UX improvements and refinement, and updates to Cortana. The biggest change in this release is Project Spartan has finally been rebranded as Microsoft Edge. As Microsoft warned more than a week ago, Edge and Spartan have different app […]... →

Following the news that it will shed around 100 employees to Uber in a mapping technology deal, Microsoft announced this afternoon that it will now power AOL’s search property, and will apportion parts of its advertising work into both AOL, and AppNexus. AOL, which owns TechCrunch, was recently purchased by Verizon, so it seems that Microsoft and our New Corporate Death Star are now… Read More... →

Microsoft, which operates the Bing maps service, will no longer collect mapping imagery. The company has sold to alternative cab company Uber the cameras it has used to collect that image data, as well as a data center near Boulder, Colo., and 100 engineers who have worked on Bing maps. Uber and Microsoft both confirmed […]... →

Такси-сервис Uber выкупит у Microsoft часть её картографического сервиса Bing Maps, около 100 сотрудников и «некоторые активы». Об этом сообщает Techcrunch со ссылкой на представителей участников сделки.... →

Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product’s image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers from Microsoft to bolster its own mapping work. The companies confirmed the transaction with TechCrunch, but each declined to name the terms of the agreement. The excision of a slice of opex from Bing… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2015 (VS 2015), the latest version of the company’s integrated development environment, will launch on July 20. This latest version greatly emphasizes cross-platform development, with support for targeting Windows, iOS and Android, in part through its support for the Apache Cordova project and Xamarin’s app development platform. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the final releases of Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015, and .NET 4.6 will be available for download on July 20. In November, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview among other previews of updated developer tools at its Connect() developer event in New York City. Over the […]... →

If 17-year-old Google is at all worried that it’s losing it mojo, it should find some new data highly reassuring. According to a survey of 19,000 students across 340 universities around the world, Google is still their top choice when asked where they’d want to work. Their other top picks, in descending order: Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. The survey was conducted by… Read More... →

On the heels of Microsoft’s acquisition of the Berlin startup darling 6Wunderkinder for a price between $100 and $200 million, the debate rages on about whether Berlin startups should be bolder and wait longer for an exit. The consensus in the Berlin startup ecosystem is that we are still missing one extraordinarily big success. Read More... →

Microsoft will change the way it regularly reports revenue to shareholders after Windows 10 comes out on July 29. Today Microsoft issued a PowerPoint presentation going over the finer points of the changes. “We will have a new revenue recognition model because Windows 10 will include software updates provided over time, rather than at specifically […]... →

Столкнулся с тем, что на сайте Microsoft Outlook и прочие офисные радости стоят 286 рублей (где я их и покупал), а в Google Play только 199 рублей (купил через Upgrade в приложении Word - Outlook для Android бесплатный. Комментарий Roem.ru: как показывает опыт, это происходит потому что Microsoft предпочитает ставить цены, максимизирующие ее выручку. Второе соображение: офис на Android только начали продавать и Microsoft еще не определилась окончательно в своей ценовой политике.... →

Продажи телефонов на базе платформы от Microsoft в России выросли более чем в два раза за год.... →

Microsoft today rolled out a new preview build of Windows 10 for phones. Build 10149 for people in the fast ring of the Windows Insider program provides a few updates that users have been asking for, and it finally changes the name of Microsoft’s next-generation browser from Project Spartan to Microsoft Edge. Today’s build comes […]... →

The Microsoft search engine has spruced up its homepage by adding an audio button in addition to its interactive, panoramic screen images.... →