Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft today announced that it generated $6.59 billion in profits during the fiscal 2015 third quarter, or $0.61 per share, beating analyst forecasts by 10 cents. Revenues climbed to $21.7 billion, a 6 percent increase compared with the same year-ago period, surpassing Wall Street estimates of $21 billion. In what is becoming a familiar theme, […]

Ernst & Young (EY) and Microsoft formed a partnership to manage the transition to cloud-enabled work styles and business processes for the professional services firm’s clients, the companies announced. Dubbed the EY-Microsoft Digital Alliance, the project’s aim is to help enterprises adopt new innovations in mobile, data analytics and cloud computing to improve business results […]

Microsoft is beefing up the data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities in SharePoint Online and OneDrive, helping Office 365 customers prevent potentially costly leaks of sensitive information. The company announced that it is entering the second phase of a multi-phase rollout of DLP technologies for the cloud-enabled productivity software platform. Microsoft kicked off the first phase […]

Server Message Block version 1 (SMB1) is being phased out, and organizations that are still relying on the protocol may have a tough time implementing upcoming Windows technologies, cautions Microsoft. SMB is a network file sharing protocol that enables shared access to remote servers and their resources, such as files. Unable to handle large data […]

Users of the smartphone version of Windows 10 Preview won’t have long to wait to evaluate Microsoft’s vision of cross-device productivity, announced the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. Jared Spataro, general manager for the Microsoft Office marketing team, took to the official Office Blogs to reveal “that the Office Universal apps preview for Windows 10 for […]

Today during the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new offerings aimed at providing its customers with greater transparency and control over the data they entrust to the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant’s cloud. “They want transparency on what’s happening with their data and their content,” Doug Hauger, general manager of Microsoft’s National Cloud […]

Microsoft Intune, the company’s cloud-based, multiplatform mobile-device management (MDM) service, is getting new updates this week, including features that allow organizations to get a better handle on their workers’ Android devices. In February, Microsoft rolled out Office mobile (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) management capabilities for Android smartphones. This week, Android tablets can get in on […]

Startups, developers and independent software vendors (ISV) will soon be able to exploit Microsoft’s expertise in the cloud to deliver scalable, reliable and high-performance apps. Today, Microsoft took the wraps off its latest cloud offering, called Azure Service Fabric. The cloud service, which will be released as a developer preview during this year’s Build conference […]

Azure Premium Storage, Microsoft’s cloud storage service that uses solid-state drives (SSDs), instead of traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), is now generally available in select regions, the company announced. Currently, the speedy storage option is available in the West US (California), East US 2 (Virginia), West Europe (Netherlands), East China (Shanghai), Southeast Asia (Singapore) and […]

SharePoint Server 2016 won’t be available until well into next year, but customers will be able to test the software later this year. Seth Patton, senior director of product management for Microsoft SharePoint, confirmed “that SharePoint Server 2016 will become generally available in Q2 2016, with a public beta planned for Q4 2015,” in an […]

Despite recent rumblings that Yahoo was considering splitting from Microsoft’s Bing search technology, the companies announced today that they had renewed the 2009 deal, but with some changes. In a joint April 16 announcement, Microsoft and Yahoo said, “The companies amended their search partnership to improve the search experience, create value for advertisers and establish […]

Microsoft’s attempt at squashing SQL Server 2014 bugs ran into a bug of its own. The company released SQL Server Service Pack 1 (SP1) on the April 15 anniversary of the database software’s launch. Today, Microsoft is hitting the pause button after a discovering an issue. “The SQL SSIS team has found an issue with […]