Pedro Hernandez

Azure Event Grid, an event-routing service that enables businesses to build serverless and event-based applications, is generally available, announced Corey Sanders, director of Compute at Microsoft Azure, on Jan. 30. Riding on intensifying enterprise demand for modular and serverless applications that can automate business processes and workflows, and taking a publish/subscribe approach to messaging, the […]

Betting on a cloud-first product strategy has proven to be a lucrative move for Microsoft. On Jan. 31, the Redmond, Wash. tech titan reported revenue of $28.9 billion for its second quarter of fiscal year 2018, representing a year-over-increase of 12 percent and beating Wall Street analyst estimates of nearly $28.4 billion. Net income was […]

Microsoft’s sweeping update to Teams wasn’t the only big change to affect the Office ecosystem. The company’s co-authoring feature is now generally available to iOS and Mac users. Office’s real-time co-authoring capabilities may not be new, but ever since Microsoft introduced the feature in 2013, some users have had to wait until they arrived on […]

Microsoft is revamping its flagship Windows operating, and according to news reports, the Redmond, Wash. software giant is ready to ditch some legacy components in order to slim it down and bring it to market. Windows 10 may boast a more modern look and feel, along with features such as Cortana, the AI-powered virtual assistant […]

Microsoft is currently rolling out a major new update for Teams, the software maker’s answer to Slack and other chat-based collaboration apps, which promises to improve the way it works with other applications. Most collaboration apps, including Teams, feature integrations that link various applications and services in the hopes that users will streamline their workflows […]

Add PlayFab to Microsoft’s growing list of cloud-related buys. The Redmond, Wash., technology giant announced on Jan. 29 that it had acquired PlayFab, a startup from neighboring Seattle whose tools enable developers to build, launch and manage PC, console and mobile games with cloud-enabled components and multiplayer elements. Financial terms were not disclosed. PlayFab offers […]

Microsoft and networking giant Cisco are teaming up to help Azure ExpressRoute customers sort out networking issues that may arise in their hybrid cloud architectures. Launched in 2014, Azure ExpressRoute offers organizations with stringent security and performance requirements a private and secure link to Microsoft’s cloud-computing services. Traffic on ExpressRoute is spared the unpredictability of […]

IT vendors are still out synch on implementing fixes to the critical Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities that were disclosed in early January. Microsoft has released a new emergency update for Windows that disables an earlier patch issued by Intel, which could cause issues for users. Those problems can include “higher than expected reboots and […]

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery now gives users more visibility into the service and how it can help businesses bounce back if trouble befalls their servers, courtesy of the general availability release of a new monitoring and troubleshooting user experience for the cloud-based disaster recovery service. The product now includes a new vault overview page, offering […]

Microsoft’s Quiet Hours is getting a new name befitting its role as a distraction-reducing feature for the Windows 10 operating system. In preview build 17083 of the operating system, available to members of the Windows Insider testing and feedback program, Quiet Hours is now called Focus Assist. The new name evokes Microsoft’s ethos of boosting […]

With PowerShell Core 6.0 out of the gate, it’s time to look ahead at what’s in store for the command line and task automation tool. Apart from new security enhancements, the next major update will include some AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities. The Jan. 10 general availability release of PowerShell Core 6.0 […]

Wondering exactly what kind of data Windows is sending to Microsoft? A new tool, called the Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer, lifts the veil on the previously opaque communications between Windows PCs and Microsoft’s telemetry-gathering operations. To many Windows users, particularly those concerned about the privacy of their data, it comes as no surprise that Microsoft’s […]