Pedro Hernandez

Add another company to the growing list of mobile acquisitions by Microsoft. Confirming recent rumblings, the Redmond, Wash., software giant said today that it has snapped up SwiftKey, a maker of predictive software keyboard apps, for an undisclosed amount. The buy instantly and massively expands Microsoft’s presence in the competitive mobile marketplace. In a Feb. […]

Large corporate accounts are Microsoft’s bread and butter, but the IT heavyweight isn’t overlooking small and midsized businesses (SMBs) in its quest to be the go-to provider of cloud productivity software. FastTrack, an Office 365 user onboarding and support services suite for enterprises, is now available to smaller organizations. “Starting today, customers with 50 to […]

HoloLens, Microsoft’s Windows 10-powered augmented-reality headset, isn’t on the market yet, but expectations are already building. IT analyst firm Juniper Research released a forecast today predicting that device vendors will ship more than 12 million consumer smart glasses, a massive increase from the fewer than 1 million units expected to ship this year. The market […]

Water and IT equipment generally don’t mix. Nonetheless, that’s not preventing Microsoft from floating a cloud data center in the unlikeliest of places: the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Today, the Redmond, Wash., software giant took the wraps off Project Natick, an experiment in establishing an energy-efficient, low-latency cloud computing facility on the ocean floor. […]

Microsoft has just crossed a major milestone with its 6-month-old operating system, Windows 10. Having officially launched last summer on July 29, Windows 10 has already surpassed its predecessor, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter. As of January 2016, Windows 10 has claimed a 13.7 percent share of the worldwide desktop OS market versus 11.7 […]

In another busy week for Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform, the company announced a new integration aimed at helping its customers and cloud developers test blockchain-based applications. “Blockchain technologies will become even easier to build and test using Azure’s DevTest Labs currently in preview,” Marley Gray, director of Technology Strategy at Microsoft U.S. Financial Services, announced […]

Xerox today announced its fourth-quarter 2015 financial results, but during an earnings call this morning, the company’s announced split took center stage. In October, Xerox had kicked off a sweeping structural review to determine the future of the company, said Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO of the document printing giant. “It became clear through this […]

Microsoft generated $25.7 billion in revenue during the second quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2015, a 10 percent year-over-year decline. Net income was $6.3 billion, with earnings per share of 78 cents, beating Wall Street analyst expectations of 71 cents. The Redmond, Wash., software giant, meanwhile, is inching closer to […]

In the latest example of its “cloud-first” approach to workplace productivity, this week Microsoft is making it easier for users to collaborate on Office documents stored on cloud file services, even if those services belong to other providers. “Real-time co-authoring with Office Online is now available for users whose documents are stored in Box, Citrix […]

Microsoft wants to help organizations hit the ground running as they attempt to build custom language translation services, instead of starting from scratch. Available now via the Microsoft Translator Hub are three new customization options for users of the Translator application programming interface (API), the company announced today. “Today, we are changing how companies approach […]