Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

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.... →

The new hardware and software combo is a product called Sidekick.... →

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella today announced a new mission statement for the worldwide technology company. “Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,” Nadella wrote in an email he sent to employees today. GeekWire obtained the email and published it in its entirety today. Microsoft representatives […]... →

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

Word, Excel и PowerPoint адаптировали для смартфонов... →

Президент и главный исполнительный директор Yahoo Марисса Майер (Marissa Mayer) на ежегодном собрании акционеров компании в среду объявила о партнерстве с Oracle, направленном на вовлечение большего числа пользователей в поисковую систему Yahoo. Начиная с текущего месяца, пользователям при установке или обновлении программного обеспечения Java Oracle будет предложено сделать Yahoo поисковой системой по умолчанию и стартовой страницей браузера. Сделка может привлечь миллионы пользователей в Yahoo именно в т... →

GUEST: Just three major vertical silos -- owned by Google, Microsoft, and Apple -- own the majority of the business, collectively managing well over a billion accounts.... →

Microsoft today announced that its new cloud-based data warehousing service, the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is now available in a limited public preview. Microsoft first showcased the service at its Build developer conference in April. Companies can use the new service in addition to, or instead of, expensive data warehousing hardware that can live in […]... →

Microsoft this morning announced the official launch of Office for Android phone, five weeks after the company rolled out the suite of applications as a preview. Today’s release, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint designed for the Android smartphone experience, follows earlier efforts at bringing Office to Android tablets, as well as support for Office on iOS devices, Windows and… Read More... →

Microsoft today launched Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Android phones. Previously in preview, the apps have now hit general availability on Google Play: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The launch follows Microsoft’s big Office news in November, when it made mobile editing free and launched Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPhone, as well as the same […]... →

Microsoft is at it again, having fun with face recognition technology. The company has updated its TwinsOrNot app so that you can now find a picture of someone famous with Microsoft’s Bing image search and then compare it to a picture you upload of yourself. The app then tries to figure out if you and […]... →

Immersive headsets continue to lift off company drawing boards, in the hopes of powering a new wave of virtual reality in the consumer space — whether it’s the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift, Sony’s Project Morpheus, Microsoft’s Hololens or HTC-Valve’s Vive, to name a few VR devices in the works (some others: FOVE, Razer… the list goes on). Dutch startup… Read More... →

Microsoft is making its widely used software even more capable of working with the trendy open-source Docker container technology. During a presentation at the DockerCon conference in San Francisco today, Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of the Microsoft Azure public cloud, used Docker to build and deployed an application that could run on both the […]... →

Docker today announced the general availability of its commercial solutions for businesses that want to use its container management software. Docker’s commercial solution will be available through Docker itself, but also from Amazon Web Services, IBM and Microsoft, starting at a relatively modest price of $150 per month. For that, subscribers get 24/7 support for their Docker deployments,… Read More... →