Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is taking a slight detour from Office content and communications and focusing instead on people for the latest update to Office Delve. “Today’s enhancements to the Office 365 personal profile experience, within Delve, deliver a richer people-based search and discovery [experience],” said Mark Kashman, senior product manager for Microsoft Office 365, in an April […]

Time is running out for organizations that are relying on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to keep their business applications up and running. Support for the company’s SQL Server 2005 database software platform ends approximately a year from now, on April 12, 2016. As with other software that is put out to pasture, Microsoft doesn’t “release […]

Skype for Business has officially launched on schedule and nearly a month after Microsoft released the technical preview to Lync’s successor. In an April 14 announcement, Microsoft’s Skype for Business Team revealed that “the new Skype for Business client is now rolling out as part of the April monthly update for Office 2013.” The software […]

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Datazen Software, a Toronto-based maker of mobile business intelligence software, for an undisclosed amount. “This acquisition accelerates our Power BI strategy to help organizations create a data culture with easy-to-use, accessible tools to extract maximum value from data—from anywhere, on any device,” stated Kamal Hathi, partner director of […]

Owners of select Lumia Windows Phones can take Project Spartan, the successor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser, for a spin after early Project Spartan, considered a replacement for the company’s long-lived IE browser has been available to early testers of the upcoming Windows 10 operating system since March 30. Now, Lumia smartphone users […]

Microsoft has revamped the Bing homepage for iOS and Android smartphones, aligning the mobile search experience with the expectations of users that engage with Bing.com on their iPhones and Android handsets, according to the company. In an April 10 announcement, Microsoft revealed some of the fine tuning its Bing Homepage team performed to come up […]

Getty Images’ lawsuit against Microsoft’s short-lived Bing Image Widget was settled this week, ending a case that highlighted the sometimes-contentious intersection between automated content redistribution and copyright. Released last summer as a beta, the Bing Image Widget allowed webmasters to spruce up their sites with snippets of code that embedded digital images and photos generated […]

Office Online, Microsoft’s browser-based suite of Word, PowerPoint and Excel productivity apps, is following in the footsteps of its mobile counterparts. Microsoft announced that Office Online users can now link their Dropbox to their accounts, a capability available to the iOS, Android and Windows versions of the company’s productivity apps. “Now, when working in Office […]

Office 365 customers can already block spam, phishing scams and emails that contain malware with Microsoft’s cloud-based Exchange Online Protection offering for $1 per user per month. Hackers, meanwhile, are growing craftier, and inboxes are under assault from more sophisticated attacks, according to Shobhit Sahay, technical product manager for Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft’s answer is […]

Nearly six months after Microsoft first announced a partnership with Docker Inc., the leading commercial backer of the increasingly popular open-source Docker container technology, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has announced its own container platform. Enterprise IT organizations and developers are flocking to Docker because of the virtualization technology’s lean and efficient approach to deploying […]

Microsoft and digital video specialist Hauppauge are helping prospective cord-cutters take a major step closer to breaking up with their cable TV companies. “Starting today, members of the Xbox One preview program in the United States and Canada can get over-the-air TV by purchasing the Hauppauge WinTV-955Q (MSRP $79.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop and […]

Skype Translator has doubled its spoken language support to four languages, Microsoft announced today. “In December, we announced the first phase of the Skype Translator preview program and today we’re excited to announce Skype Translator’s next milestone, the addition of two spoken languages: Italian and Chinese (Mandarin), to the current offering of Spanish and English,” […]