Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is adding another piece to the software-defined data center puzzle for cloud providers. During this week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft unveiled a new set of open-source software components for switches and other networking devices dubbed Software for Open Networking in the Cloud, or SONiC for short. Built […]

Keeping its promise to release its cloud-first Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in early 2016, Microsoft announced on March 9 that the offering is now available to customers around the globe—in 137 markets in 40 languages, in fact. “Today’s release is an exciting milestone extending Microsoft’s business cloud offerings,” said Scott Guthrie, executive […]

Microsoft may seem devotedly focused on business productivity lately, but the Redmond, Wash., software giant is still finding ways to go back to school. The company has released a beta version of its new Class Notebook add-in for OneNote, simultaneously arriving in 61 markets and localized into 43 languages. Class Notebooks first arrived in 2014 […]

Microsoft gave Office’s integrated, Bing-powered image search a major overhaul this week. Now, when looking for images to include in PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, InfoPath, OneNote, Publisher and Visio, the Bing image-selection window displays a grid of thumbnail images, mimicking the search engine’s online image search results page on the Web. The updated feature appears […]

The once unthinkable is about to become reality. Microsoft will release next year a version of its SQL Server database software that runs on Linux, the Redmond, Wash., software giant announced yesterday. SQL Server, like most of the company’s business enterprise software offerings, traditionally has run on Windows and is a major a major pillar […]

Skype-enhanced co-authoring, one of Office Online’s signature collaboration features, will soon work with files on SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, Nikhil Nathwani, a program manager for Microsoft’s Office Core team revealed in a blog post. Microsoft first enabled Skype Group chats in Office Online in late 2014, which allowed users to discuss changes to Office […]

Gartner recently studied the email routing records of 40,000 public companies to determine if they used cloud email services from Microsoft or Google. The analyst firm discovered that 8.5 percent used Microsoft Office 365, beating Google Apps for Work at 4.7 percent. “Microsoft is more popular with larger organizations and has more than an 80 […]

What HoloLens Development Edition Has in Store for Early Adopters For developers willing to pay $3,000 for Microsoft’s HoloLens Development Edition augmented-reality headset, here’s what they can expect when it ships at the end of March. Here’s the Hardware Here’s what $3,000 buys early adopters. Apart from the headset, the package includes a carrying case, […]

True to its word, Microsoft joined 14 other tech companies to file an amicus, or friend of the court brief supporting Apple in the San Bernardino iPhone case. Apple is fighting a court order to assist the FBI in unlocking an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the suspects in the December mass […]

Phishers beware. Azure Active Directory (AD) Identity Protection is in public beta, announced Alex Simons, director of Program Management for Microsoft’s Identity division, yesterday. The service, an add-on to Microsoft’s cloud-based user identity and access management software, helps businesses thwart attacks and breaches caused by compromised user accounts. A common way for users to lose […]