Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office. It lets you create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, newsletters, vacation memories, ...
Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office. It lets you create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, newsletters, vacation memories, ...
Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office. It lets you create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, newsletters, vacation memories, ...
Curah! is a new site focusing on curating the best tech answers available online.
Targeted mainly at developers, the new Microsoft information portal has been designed to provide curated answers on topics ranging from high-level technology descriptions to deep technical articles covering specific problems that developers commonly face.
By exploring the home page you can already find a set of gret examples of curated answers in which a Microsoft trusted expert has collected a set of artcìicles and online resources highly relevant to a specific topic.
"We’ve developed Curah! as a way to help customers discover great technical content. Curah! has a very specific purpose: to help people searching in Bing or Google find annotated collections of great content that specifically target common user questions."
My comment: A great example of the value that content curation can provide to customers, developers as well as to the public at large. The choice of starting the site with great examples to follow-up on is also the best possible approach to guide and train future contributors on what is expected of them. A great model for the many specialized curated answer sites that will spring up in coming years.
Today Microsoft has announced that Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, has decided to retire within the next 12 months, after finding a suitable new successor.
It is not a secret that Microsoft Corp. pins a lot of hopes onto its Kinect device and derivative motion sensing technologies But while the company does not only sell Kinect for Windows sensor, but also encourages PC makers to integrate the tech into devices, there are a number of problems with those sensors.
Microsoft has launched a new skills programme in the UK to improve young people's IT skills and digital literacy.
The Get On programme includes a number of different initiatives to help young people "get inspired, get skilled and get a job", said Hugh Milward, Microsoft head of corporate affairs, in an interview with V3.
The programme is set to help 300,000 16 to 24 year olds take steps toward work and the start of a career over the next three years, through a combination of education and training, apprenticeships and work experience.
Free tools from Microsoft. Engage your students, energize a lesson plan, and save time using free tools for photos, videos, collaboration, and education.
For example:
- AutoCollage: Create an artful photo poster using this fun collage-making tool.
- Microsoft Photosynth: Explore famous places with cinematic quality using these virtual, visual, three-dimensional tours.
- Windows Live Movie Maker: The fast, easy way to turn photos and video clips into great-looking movies and slide shows to share in class or on the web.
Download the teacher’s guide above, and learn about a dozen more free tools.
Gust MEES: I recommend Photosynth as I was working a lot with it, you can even create virtual visits of anything with it, great tool...
"Over the weekend, Microsoft quietly launched an experimental social network called So.cl. which combines facets of social networking, search, and media sharing with a user interface resembling Google+.
Users are encouraged to search for information about a particular topic, then compile the best results - textual content, images and videos - into a single post.
So.cl is initially targeted to students. It may end up being useful to that market, but it's unlikely to get traction as a mainstream social network."
francesco guglielmin's comment May 22, 2012 12:39 PM
Seems very good as interface , for now anyone can request invite that arrive after a little time. Sincerely i don't know how many users it will attract
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.
The web thrives on standards and, for better or worse, JavaScript is its programming language. Over the years, however, we’ve seen more and more efforts that allow developers to work around some of the limitations of JavaScript by building compilers that transpile code in other languages to JavaScript. Some of these projects focus on adding new features to the language (like Microsoft’s TypeScript) or speeding up JavaScript (like Mozilla’s asm.js project). Now, many of these projects are starting to come together in the form of WebAssmbly.
The web thrives on standards and, for better or worse, JavaScript is its programming language. Over the years, however, we’ve seen more and more efforts that allow developers to work around some of the limitations of JavaScript by building compilers that transpile code in other languages to JavaScript. Some of these projects focus on adding new features to the language (like Microsoft’s TypeScript) or speeding up JavaScript (like Mozilla’s asm.jsproject). Now, many of these projects are starting to come together in the form of WebAssmbly.
What does it mean for online content to "go viral"? An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the...
ViralSearch from Microsoft Research Labs is a new means to navigating, searching, content that spreads over social media.
ViralSearch visualizes how stories get distributed and how they virally get spread online.
From the official site: "An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the first quantitative notion of whether something has indeed gone viral, thereby enabling further research into topic experts, trending topics, and viral-incident metrics."
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Microsoft has a new translation technology that increases accuracy with help from your voice.
Discussed yesterday in a blog post by Microsoft chief research officer Rick Rashid, the company's translation technology is capable of taking a user's spoken English word and then translating that into Mandarin Chinese. The kicker is that the Chinese translation is pumped through speakers in the user's own voice.
Microsoft's technology is based on a new translation technique called Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Rather than use the "hidden Markov modeling" technique, which is widely used and bases translation on training data from many speakers, DNN uses human brain behavior to develop better speech recognizers. That advancement has helped Microsoft reduce translation error by over 30 percent, compared to the Markov method, according to Rashid. Whereas older models make errors once in every four or five words, DNN's error rate is one word out of seven or eight.
Summary: Microsoft released two eagerly awaited updates for Internet Explorer today, both addressing serious security issues. One covers a zero-day flaw in IE9 and earlier versions, the second updates Flash in Windows 8.
Adobe and Microsoft each issued security updates today to fix critical vulnerabilities in their software. Adobe’s fixes include a patch for a Flash Player flaw that is actively being exploited to break into Windows computers. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release includes nine patch bundles — more than half of them rated critical — addressing at least 27 security holes in Windows and related software.
Nevertheless, the underlying vulnerability being targeted exists in Windows, Mac and Linux versions of the software. Windows and Mac users can grab the latest version (v. 11.3.300.271) via the Flash Player download center.
Be sure to uncheck the “free” software scans that Adobe loves to bundle with updates, such as McAfee‘s obnoxious Security Scan Plus, if you don’t want it. Linux users should update to v. 11.2.202.238, and Chrome users want to be at v. 11.3.330.270 (normally Chrome auto-updates Flash, but recently it’s been sluggish to do so: my Chrome installation is still at v. 11.3.31.225. I will update this post in a bit with the direct links to the Flash Player downloads.
Microsoft Recruits Designers in Race for Windows AppsBusinessWeek(MSFT) (MSFT) is so eager to have a panoply of applications for the next version of its Windows operating system that it has lined up design firms, recruited interns and sent engineers...
It's a Nokia patent of 2010 for a haptic tattoo that transmits “a perceivable impulse” through a person’s skin when he or she gets a phone call, text message or email alert. With Windows agreement this patent project could be achived.
Nokia and Microsoft are launching a fund of € 18 mil. for App development Startup, and are also launching (8 April 2012) in USA the new Lumia 900 at very popular price $ 100.
After a black period Nokia tries to take a new chance. It will soon produce benefits?
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