Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is using its considerable financial resources and influence to help popularize renewable energy in Virginia. The Redmond, Wash., tech titan has entered into a public-private partnership with energy producer Dominion Virginia Power and the state of Virginia to kick off a new 20-megawatt solar project, the company announced this week. Situated next to Dominion’s […]

Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft’s elastic cloud data warehousing solution, has gained new management capabilities, courtesy of a batch of recent updates issued by the Redmond, Wash., software maker. The product enables businesses to create petabyte-scale data warehouses on Microsoft’s cloud that dynamically shrink and grow, and can even be paused. It integrates with the […]

Microsoft’s efforts to attract startups to its months-old, blockchain-as-a-service cloud platform appears to be paying off. Based on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, blockchain is a distributed-database technology with transaction tracking and verification capabilities that are hardened against tampering. In his sixth update on the progress of Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service, Marley Gray, director of business development and strategy […]

Soon, all Office 365 administrators will be able to dig deeper into their organizations’ Office usage patterns and metrics courtesy of a new Office 365 Admin Center reporting portal experience that Microsoft is currently rolling out to business customers. In preview since September, the update to the Office 365 management portal includes a user interface […]

Microsoft acquired Mojang, the Swedish game company behind Minecraft, the popular block-based sandbox construction game, for a whopping $2.5 billion in 2014. As it turns out, Microsoft not only purchased the game and inherited the loyal community that sprouted around it, the software giant also ended up with a virtual laboratory in which to test […]

Microsoft Azure Government, a secure cloud services suite for government agencies, is on track to be awarded FedRAMP High accreditation later this month, the company announced today. FedRAMP, short for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, is a government initiative that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring for cloud […]

SharePoint 2016 is one important step closer to its official launch, announced Microsoft today. The latest version of the Redmond, Wash., software maker’s cloud friendly team collaboration platform, including Project Server 2016, has been released to manufacturing (RTM), bringing it one step closer to general availability. A part of the software release life cycle, RTM […]

Microsoft has released a new tool that makes it easier for users of the popular Evernote note-taking app to switch to OneNote. Once a part of the paid Office productivity software suite, Microsoft spun out OneNote as a free mobile app for iPhone in early 2011. Although OneNote remains part of the Office product portfolio, […]

A new build of Windows 10 Mobile is now available for members of the Windows Insider early access program who are enrolled in the “Fast Ring” to be first in line to test upcoming updates to the mobile operating system. Although it includes several enhancements, users who are still connecting to virtually unprotected WEP WiFi […]

In Power BI, Microsoft’s cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) and analytics offering, full-screen mode offers a focused view of the software’s dashboard and its visualizations. It’s useful for presentations and discussing data points in meetings, but it’s a little lacking in flexibility. With a new batch of updates, Microsoft has added new features that allow users […]