Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

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... →

Frame, a cloud-based service that allows users to run desktop programs like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Excel directly from their browser, just announced that it has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Bain Capital Ventures and SQN Venture Partners participated in the round. The three-year-old Frame, formerly Mainframe2, had just recently landed… Read More... →

The company has added new features to improve Bing Rewards mobile experience.... →

Snowflake Computing, a startup that has built data warehouse software based in the Amazon Web Services cloud, announced a new $45 million funding round and made its software generally available. Snowflake made a big splash when it came out of stealth mode in October with $26 million in funding and a superstar chief executive, Microsoft […]... →

Snowflake, a novel data warehousing service that’s run by former Microsoft server and tools executive Bob Muglia, is coming out of beta today. In addition, the company today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series C round led by Altimeter Group, with participation from previous investors Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing VC. At first glance, data warehousing may… Read More... →

If you didn’t keep your ear to the page this weekend, especially regarding the news that relates to how Microsoft will allow — or not! — folks that pirated previous versions of Windows to get, or not, Windows 10, I am here to help. However, you can’t stop poetry in motion, and you also can’t write a better story than reality, so to save time, here’s… Read More... →

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are now working on a new standard for software containers with the help of the Linux Foundation. Other members of this coalition include Apcera, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu Limited, Goldman Sachs, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Mesosphere, Pivotal, Rancher Labs, Red Hat and VMware — that is, virtually everybody who has a stake in building a… Read More... →

Microsoft's online gaming service is preventing many people from signing in.... →

Global Marketing News - 22nd June 2015 Microsoft opens ecommerce store in India Microsoft has opened a store on the Indian ecommerce site Snapdeal. The branded store will sell Microsoft smartphones, tablets, PCs and software and will offer free shipping, 24 hour customer support and exclusive offers. While Microsoft already sells its products through Amazon in India,... →

Global Marketing News - 22nd June 2015 Microsoft opens ecommerce site on JD Microsoft has opened a store on the Indian ecommerce site Snapdeal. The branded store will sell Microsoft smartphones, tablets, PCs and software and will offer free shipping, 24 hour customer support and exclusive offers. While Microsoft already sells its products through Amazon in India, it is hoping that having its own branded online store will help it to increase its market share in the country.... →

The 1TB Microsoft Xbox One announcement at E3 meant this was probably inevitable, but Sony has officially revealed a 1TB version of its own console, arriving in Europe and the PAL territories starting July 15. It’ll also eventually make its way stateside, as an FCC filing spotted by Engadget proves. Bumping storage up to 1TB is a natural move for both console-makers, as well as a… Read More... →

Microsoft will be giving away Windows 10 for free to anyone as long as they test it out through the Windows Insiders program.... →

Hello, friends, and welcome back to another round of CrunchWeek. This time around the white table room, Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr, and your humble servant gathered to dig into the recent FitBit IPO, Microsoft’s internal shakeup, and something that the gaming kids call E3. As a small note, this is Kyle’s last episode of CrunchWeek, and his last video with us at all. We’re going… Read More... →

Microsoft said today that it will finally change the name of its new browser from Project Spartan to Microsoft Edge in the next build of Windows 10 for Windows Insiders in the fast ring. And that move will have some consequences for users. “One result of this naming means that the Microsoft Edge app has […]... →

This week, we learned that Facebook now cares about how long we linger on News Feed posts, Sean Parker’s new political discourse app, and got introduced to Microsoft’s new Xbox One controller. These are the tech stories you don’t want to miss this week. Read More... →

So much for terse denials. Former world number one mobile maker Nokia, which sold its device making unit to Microsoft last year, is indeed intending to get back into the mobile game next year — when a Microsoft contract clause that currently prevents it from putting its brand name on handsets lapses. Read More... →