Pedro Hernandez

The Microsoft-Red Hat deal wasn’t the only cloud-related development with an impact on Azure this week. On Nov. 4, Microsoft made big waves when it announced a wide-ranging cloud partnership with Red Hat, an alliance between once-fierce rivals that would have seemed unimaginable just a few short years ago, given Microsoft’s historic stance on open-source […]

Microsoft has snapped up Mobile Data Labs, the San Francisco-based app maker of MileIQ, for an undisclosed amount. MileIQ for Android and iOS is a popular mileage tracking app that automatically tallies the miles that roving sales forces, business travelers and mobile professionals rack up as they drive. The paid app helps streamline the process […]

Siri, Apps and a New Remote Help Apple TV Grow Up The fourth-generation Apple TV is bigger and heavier than its predecessor, and comes with a new remote and a refreshed UI to make navigating apps easier. Make a Little More Room The new Apple TV is bigger than its puck-like predecessor. Luckily, the only […]

A new announcement Nov. 5 from Microsoft suggests that the official launch of Dynamics CRM 2016, scheduled for the current quarter, is drawing closer. The upcoming update to Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Dynamics CRM 2016, will feature more seamless integration with Office 365, the company’s venerable cloud-enabled productivity suite. Soon, the two offerings […]

PowerPoint users no longer have to export their slides as images and jump through hoops to share their presentations on social media, thanks to a new add-on released today by Microsoft Garage, the software giant’s fast-track consumer app hub. “A new, free plug-in in PowerPoint developed through the Microsoft Garage is now available—Social Share,” said […]

Businesses executives are still struggling with digital transformation at their organizations and the cloud’s ability to accelerate the process. A big part of the problem is the sheer number of solutions vying for a slice of enterprise IT budgets. At the corporate level, “there is absolutely a problem with understanding the technology,” Evangelos Simoudis, managing […]

During the ever-escalating cloud storage war last year, Microsoft bundled unlimited OneDrive storage with Office 365 Home, Personal and University plans. At the time, Chris Jones, corporate vice president of Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, described the move as a “small part of our broader promise to deliver a single experience across work and life that […]

Microsoft continues to add new ways of exploring big data to its cloud-powered business intelligence offering, Power BI. Today, the software maker announced a new tool called the Timeline Slicer, a top-requested feature. “The Timeline Slicer is a graphical date range selector used as a filtering component in Power BI,” said Amir Netz, a Microsoft […]

Microsoft’s second stab at health and wellness wearables, the Band 2, is now available for purchase, according to an Oct. 20 company announcement. Revealed alongside the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 during Microsoft’s hardware event in New York City last month, the new Band is a massive overhaul of its blockier predecessor. Despite an […]

Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) project, is now officially supported on Microsoft Azure, the Redmond, Wash., software maker and cloud services provider announced today. Backed by IT heavyweights, including IBM, EMC and SAP, Cloud Foundry is an enterprise-grade software platform designed to help organizations develop, test and deploy scalable cloud applications faster. Befitting Microsoft’s […]