Pedro Hernandez

Last summer, nearly a week after Verizon announced it had completed the $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL, Microsoft said it had struck a deal with the online content network to power its AOL-branded search services, replacing Google. Now it’s official. In a Jan. 4 announcement in the Bing Ads Blog, Rik van der Kooi, corporate […]

Windows 10 Mobile may face an uphill battle against Android and iOS, but at least Acer is willing to join Microsoft in the brutally competitive smartphone market. During this week’s CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Acer is showing off its new Liquid Jade Primo handset (pictured). Running Windows 10 Mobile, the premium smartphone will support […]

Although it’s early into Windows 10’s lifespan, Microsoft is already declaring the operating system a winner less than six months after its official launch. Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group, revealed that the software giant is well on its way of getting its latest OS on a billion devices by […]

10 Things Microsoft Got Right in 2015 Despite some stumbles, Microsoft is starting the new year with strong momentum in some key areas—ranging from the cloud to Windows 10—that took hold in 2015. Windows 10 Launches The Apple-like free operating system upgrade strategy worked. More than 110 million devices are running the OS, including more […]

Windows 10 is within striking distance of Windows XP, in terms of desktop operating system market share. According to the latest figures from Web analytics company Net Applications for the full month of November, the latest edition of Microsoft’s flagship OS has 9 percent share of the desktop OS market. Only two other OSes—Windows XP […]

Windows is a distant third when pitted against Android and Apple iOS smartphones, and Microsoft is very aware of its low-single-digit toehold on the competitive market, according to Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela. In a Windows Weekly podcast, Capossela said during an interview that Microsoft is “very cognizant of our position in the phone world, […]

Microsoft recently revamped its Windows App Studio Beta, formerly Windows Phone App Studio, adding new ways for burgeoning developers to control the look and feel of their apps. Windows App Studio is a template-driven, drag-and-drop software development tool that enables both amateur and seasoned coders to quickly publish Windows applications. Users can also export Windows […]

Microsoft has finally detailed what kind of server hardware customers will need to run Azure Stack in their own data centers. Now, customers interested in running the technical preview in early 2016 can start planning their server hardware investments. “At this time, we’re ready to share hardware requirements for Azure Stack Technical Preview,” wrote Microsoft […]

Just weeks after launching a beta version of its Power BI Gateway for enterprise deployments, Microsoft is already expanding the software’s reach and user management capabilities. Power BI personal gateways provide end-user connectivity to on-premises data sources, allowing the cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) and data visualization platform to generate its charts, graphs and reports. Naturally, […]

Microsoft wants to put Windows users back in control of their computing experience and improve security by making it more difficult for adware makers to hijack certain Web browser functionality. In a follow-up to the company’s adware classification policies from April, Microsoft announced on Dec. 21 that it is taking a tougher stance on ad-supported […]