Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft today announced that it acquired Lumenisity, a U.K.-based startup developing “hollow core fiber (HCF)” technologies primarily for data centers and ISPs. Microsoft says that the purchase, the terms of which weren’t disclosed, will “expand [its] ability to further optimize its global cloud infrastructure” and “serve Microsoft’s cloud platform and services customers with strict latency […] Microsoft acquires startup developing high-speed cables for transmitting data by Kyle Wiggers originally publish... →

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The FTC announced Thursday that it would sue to block Microsoft’s acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard. Microsoft announced plans to buy the company, which has been plagued by sexual harassment and discrimination allegations and labor disputes, back in January for $68.7 billion. The deal would be mark a seismic shift in the gaming industry […] The FTC is suing to block Microsoft from buying Activision by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

It seems perhaps the rules of fairness your parents taught you as children also apply to large multi-billion dollar defense contracts. This week the DoD announced that it was awarding four big tech companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle – an equal opportunity to share in a $9 billion contract to bring the department […] This time, the DoD gives four tech titans equal shot at piece of $9B cloud contract by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

North Korean state-sponsored hackers exploited a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer to target South Korean users with malware, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group. Google researchers discovered first discovered the zero-day flaw on October 31 when multiple individuals uploaded a malicious Microsoft Office document to the company’s VirusTotal tool. These documents purported to […] North Korean hackers exploited Internet Explorer zero-day to spread malware by Carly Page ori... →

Sound design in games is rarely given the same level of attention as graphics, but games these days really do have extraordinarily detailed and interesting soundscapes. Microsoft thinks so, anyway, and is bringing two auditory environments from Halo Infinite and Sea of Thieves to the meditation app Calm. It’s small news and in a way […] Halo and Sea of Thieves ambience tracks come to Calm meditation app by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft Teams launched a new “Communities” feature on Android and iOS devices, the company announced today. Users can now create and organize groups with their recreational sports club, event planning committee, parent-teacher association, or any other group in their community. The feature gives users access to group calendars, event scheduling, meetings, document/photo sharing, video calls […] Microsoft Teams targets Facebook Groups with new ‘Communities’ feature by Lauren Forristal originally published ... →

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed that it has been hit by ransomware attack that has left a number of its customers without access to email. Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange service started experiencing problems on Friday last week. At the time, Rackspace posted a notice on its status page saying that due to a “security incident,” […] Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft posted the monthly Microsoft Advertising news and new features and announced a bunch of new stuff. The new features include new flyer extensions, update (restate) the revenue value associated or delete (retract) the conversion, a new calendar view for ad scheduling and more.... →

A group of about 300 quality assurance (QA) testers at video game company ZeniMax Media are seeking to form the first ever union at Microsoft, the parent company to their studio. ZeniMax includes subsidiaries like Bethesda Softworks and id Software, producing franchises like “The Elder Scrolls,” “Doom” and “Fallout.” Union organizing has been on the […] Microsoft could get its first official union as ZeniMax QA testers organize by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Microsoft may have long had OpenAI as its trusty partner (after its sizable investment), but AWS today announced that Stability AI, one of the hottest new upstarts in the generative AI space and the company behind Stable Diffusion, is doubling down on its cloud, making it its “preferred cloud provider to build and scale its […] Stability AI doubles down on AWS by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Legal trouble may be brewing for Microsoft in the European Union where an assessment by a working group of German data protection regulators that’s spent around two years looking into a swathe of privacy concerns attached to its cloud-based 365 productivity products — including by engaging directly with the tech giant to try to get […] Microsoft 365 faces darkening GDPR compliance clouds after German report by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

India’s VerSe Innovation — the $5 billion Indian startup behind news aggregator Dailyhunt, short-video platform Josh, and hyperlocal video app PublicVibe — has cut 150 employees, or 5% of its workforce of 3,000, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-based startup informed impacted employees on Friday and separately held a town hall meeting on Monday […] Google, Microsoft-backed VerSe Innovation cuts 5% of workforce, reduces salaries by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft Bing is testing placing a favicon or icon of some sort in front of the people also ask results. The screenshot example below is from Frank Standtmann, a German-based SEO, who showed Wikipedia and other sites' favicon being placed before the people also ask results in Bing's search results.... →

LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature that allows users to schedule posts to send at a later time. The Microsoft-owned social network has seemingly been testing the new feature for several months already, according to at least one online report dating back to August, but it seems that it’s now ramping up the rollout, according […] LinkedIn’s rolling out a new feature that lets you schedule posts for later by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Microsoft has warned that malicious hackers are exploiting a discontinued web server found in common Internet of Things (IoT) devices to target organizations in the energy sector. In an analysis published on Tuesday, Microsoft researchers said they had discovered a vulnerable open-source component in the Boa web server, which is still widely used in a […] Microsoft says attackers are hacking energy grids by exploiting decades-old software by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft Bing seems to be promoting TikTok video results within the Bing search results. If you do a search for some videos, Bing might add a box on the left side by the video search results box that says "Short videos of X" with a "from TikTok" button.... →

Bing Webmaster Tools will undergo scheduled maintenance between 10am and 1pm ET today. The Microsoft Bing Search toolset posted this notice at the top of the tool when you login today.... →