Pedro Hernandez

Anaconda, a distribution of the Python programming language, now includes Visual Studio Code, announced Microsoft and Anaconda, Inc. “Visual Studio Code can easily be installed at the same time as Anaconda, providing a great editing and debugging experience for Python users, with special features tailor-made for Anaconda users. This is another example of Microsoft’s continued […]

Windows 10 Pro for Workstations is getting a new Ultimate Performance setting meant to help users realize the full potential of their high-end PC hardware. The operating system, inadvertently leaked in June 2017 and subsequently released as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creator Update, supports multi-CPU configurations and a higher memory limit compared with […]

SAP is bringing its big data analytics capabilities to bear on financial fraud with a new application that helps enterprises keep a clean set of books and stay on the right side of the law. The German software maker unveiled on Feb. 13 its SAP Business Integrity Screening offering, an application that scours massive volumes […]

Windows Server preview build 17093 and Project Honolulu 1802 are now available to Windows Server Insiders, members of Microsoft’s early-access and feedback program. Apart from some under-the-hood fine-tuning, there are no new features for Windows Server this time around; that honor goes to Project Honolulu. But there some new bugs that may spell a quick […]

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), a suite of security services that helps Windows 10 systems block emerging and sophisticated attacks, is coming this summer to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Windows Defender ATP combines behavioral analytics, machine learning and threat intelligence collected by Microsoft’s cloud services slate and Windows systems in the wild. The […]

Microsoft has made its latest version of System Center, its data center monitoring and management toolset, generally available. And with the release of System Center 1801, administrators who are familiar with the numbering scheme used in System Center 2016 and previous versions will have to get accustomed to a new one. Microsoft announced in November […]

Power BI users have long been able to use the data analytics platform’s sharing functionality to distribute dashboards directly to other users. Power BI reports, meanwhile, were doled out using other means, like publishing to the web or generating a static PDF file. Now, report sharing is available as part of an update to Power […]

Microsoft’s war against passwords has taken a new turn in Windows 10 preview build 17093. Most of the Redmond, Wash. software giant’s employees is already using Windows Hello, the company’s suite of biometric and secure authentication technologies, to log into their PCs at work. Now, the company is enlisting Windows 10 S users to the […]

After months of testing, LinkedIn’s Resume Assistant is now available to Office 365 users. The AI-enabled resume builder for Microsoft Word was first released to members of the Office Insider early-access and feedback program. Now the integration—one of many Microsoft has been working on since the software maker acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26 billion—is […]

Planner, Microsoft’s answer to Trello and other cloud-based team and project management platforms, now has a handful of new features designed to help users wring a little more productivity out of their schedules. Using a board-and-card layout, the Office 365 application allows workers to organize their tasks and associated deadlines in a visual manner. They […]

Microsoft is adding more transparency to the process of calculating and managing cloud costs for large Azure customers. Although migrating to the cloud is often touted as a budget-friendly way of consuming IT resources that a business needs, technology executives often discover that pinning down the true cost of their cloud investments is easier said […]

Microsoft is giving its enterprise and education customers a little more time before their older versions of Windows 10 begin slipping out of support. Since the arrival of Windows 10, Microsoft has taken a “Windows as a service” approach to delivering operating system updates. Twice a year, users can expect a major feature update apart […]