Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is leaving practically no device behind in its quest to turn its Skype app into a mobile must-have. This week, the company announced Skype 6.4 for Android, an update that adds Android Wear support. Specifically, the app now allows users to manage or reply to conversations with a tap or two of their smartwatches, […]

Microsoft announced Sept. 28 that it has acquired Adxstudio, a provider of Web portal and application life cycle management tools based on Dynamics CRM and other Microsoft technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions aimed at strengthening Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) product portfolio and better […]

At AzureCon, a free virtual cloud-themed event, Microsoft today announced an upcoming Azure Container Service that brings the Apache Mesos cluster management technology to Docker deployments on the company’s cloud. The service, available in preview later this year, comes courtesy of a partnership with San Francisco-based Mesosphere. “Rather than building our own [container orchestration technology], […]

Tech watchers interested in Microsoft now have an alternative to poring over financial statements, press releases and the obscure corners of the Redmond, Wash.-based company’s massive Website. Microsoft has revamped its By the Numbers site, announced Frank X. Shaw, corporate vice president of Communications for the company. Sporting a more mobile-friendly and animated design, the […]

Microsoft announced some major new developments surrounding its cloud-based big data processing capabilities in advance of AzureCon, a free virtual event that kicks off Sept. 29. Among them is Azure Data Lake Store, an expansion of Azure Data Lake, the company’s cloud-based repository for big data workloads, which was first announced at the Build conference […]

Microsoft and Adafruit, an online community, e-commerce shop and resource site for makers, have teamed to offer the Windows IoT Core Starter Kit. Based on the popular Raspberry Pi 2 computing board, the bundle is intended to help developers and hardware hackers interested in building Internet of things (IoT) solutions get a jump-start on their […]

Microsoft isn’t stopping its invasion of the workplace with this week’s official launch of its more collaborative Office 2016 suite for Windows. Now the software maker is tackling meetings with a new app for Apple’s iPhone called Invite. Hailing from Microsoft Garage, an internal fast-track, cross-platform app development unit, Invite helps users organize meetings when […]

During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus Sept. 23, the company announced several new initiatives aimed at popularizing its technologies in China. Among them is a major change to the default Windows search experience. “Baidu.com will become the default homepage and search for the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10 [in […]

Today, coinciding with Pope Francis’ headline-grabbing visit to New York City, a day before he addresses the U.N. General Assembly here, the advocacy group Avaaz enlisted Edward Snowden, journalist Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda to bring attention to the launch of a new campaign seeking to strengthen privacy and protections for whistle-blowers with […]

Yesterday, more than two months after the Mac version made its debut, Microsoft officially launched Office 2016 for Windows. Enterprises with volume licensing plans can start downloading the software on Oct. 1. Although it remains anchored by the software giant’s stalwart business applications—namely Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint—the latest version of Office hews a little […]