Pedro Hernandez

ORLANDO, Fla.—Citrix CEO Mark Templeton stood before attendees at the Citrix Synergy conference in Orlando today to reiterate his company’s support for its virtual application platform, XenApp. “We’ve left some questions in your mind about XenApp,” he admitted early into his address. “We love XenApp because you love XenApp.” In a keynote centered on the […]

Microsoft has announced a public preview of Office 365 Import Service, a new offering that allows organizations to quickly import their Personal Storage Table (PST) files into Exchange Online, the company’s cloud-based hosted email platform. PST is a file format used by Microsoft to store email messages, tasks, calendar events and other items. Two years […]

Contrary to an earlier report, Microsoft may not be considering a bid on cloud sales and customer service software giant Salesforce.com. Microsoft currently considers Salesforce too pricey, but the company may be open to a deal in the long term, according to a late-day May 7 Reuters report citing two unnamed sources familiar with the […]

When it comes to Web browsing on Windows 10, Microsoft’s developers are cleaning house. Among the relics of the soon-to-be past is ActiveX. Arguing that the new Microsoft Edge browser is more than a reskinned version of Internet Explorer (IE), Edge program managers Charles Morris and Jacob Rossi took to the company’s new Microsoft Edge […]

Early Windows Server 2016 testers can now natively manage and monitor the storage performance of their virtual machines with a new feature called Storage Quality of Service (QoS). Part of this week’s release of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2, Storage QoS enables administrators to provide virtual machines, and their applications by extension, predictable performance […]

Microsoft may be ready to dig deep into its war chest to snap up San Francisco-based Salesforce.com, the market-leading cloud customer relationship management (CRM) software provider. The Redmond, Wash.-based technology giant is mulling a bid for Salesforce, according to a May 5 report in Bloomberg, potentially setting the stage for a blockbuster acquisition. Salesforce currently […]

Microsoft Office and Dynamics CRM Online offer users a more seamless way of accessing customer information after this week’s release of the Spring 2015 update for the cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software platform. Given the overlap of Office and Dynamics CRM users, Microsoft is in the midst an ongoing quest to integrate the platforms. […]

After extending its embrace to rival mobile platforms, Microsoft is now looking to tighten security in its ecosystem of mobile device management (MDM) solutions. During this week’s Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft’s inaugural event for IT professionals, the company’s mobile device management announcements were “very focused on cyber-security in particular,” Andrew Conway, senior director of […]

Microsoft’s Surface 3, the company’s more portable follow-up to last year’s business-friendly Surface Pro 3 tablet, is now available in the United States, the company announced today. Prices start at $499. In addition to the U.S., buyers can also pick up a Surface 3 in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan […]

HoloLens, Microsoft’s buzz-worthy augmented-reality technology, wasn’t the only thing that resonated with the IT community following last week’s Build developer conference. How-Old.net, a Website where users upload photos and it guesses their age and gender, was a hit on social media and attracted widespread tech coverage over the weekend. Once photos are uploaded, the site […]

Microsoft today kicked off the Ignite conference for IT professionals in Chicago with several new announcements that the company says will help businesses better adapt to today’s cloud- and mobile-enabled business processes. Taking the place of Microsoft’s Management Summit, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project and TechEd conferences, Ignite reflects the Redmond, Wash., software giant’s own reorganization, […]

Cortana will soon start helping Windows 10 users not only hail an Uber car, but also anticipate their need for one. Microsoft and Uber have partnered “to create the type of end to end experience that will be an integral part of Cortana in the future,” announced Marcus Ash, a Microsoft program manager. The digital […]