Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft’s educational push continues today with the release of OneNote Staff Notebook for Education, a Web-based Office 365 application for SharePoint 2013 (Service Pack 1 and above). The app builds on the company’s classroom-themed offering, dubbed OneNote Class Notebook, and provides teachers and school administrators with free tools that track student progress, smooth the transition […]

Language, culture and heritage are often inextricably linked. Microsoft is working to ensure that cultural fabric of some populations aren’t pulled apart because today’s software solutions don’t speak their language. Celebrating UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, which took place on Feb. 21, the Redmond, Wash.-based company is showing off its progress in making technology more […]

Thirty days may seem like a generous amount of time for deleted Outlook items to hang around, but it can be a crushing deadline if one of those items were the victim of an accidental press of the Delete key. Microsoft is readying an update for Exchange Online, the company’s cloud-based email, contact and calendar […]

Microsoft is beefing up the Xbox One’s community and social aspects with a new update that’s slated for release next month. Dubbed simply the March system update, available now for members of the company’s early-access Xbox One preview program, it includes two new features aimed at helping users connect, compete and share their in-game activities, […]

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, the company’s cloud-based predictive analytics offering, is now generally available, the company announced during this week’s Strata + Hadoop World big data conference in San Jose, Calif. The solution joins another high-profile Microsoft release during the event, the first public preview of Azure HDInsight on Linux. With roots in the company’s […]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella remarked in October that the company’s Azure cloud computing platform “supports any OS on any container technology, so we support both Linux and Windows Server,” before declaring that “Microsoft loves Linux.” Today, as enterprises mull placing their big data workloads on third-party clouds, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is extending its […]

Microsoft is banking on an expanded set of Office 365 encryption features to help businesses keep a lid on sensitive information while their workers roam far and wide. Following a flurry of mobile-enabled product releases, Microsoft’s Office software portfolio has evolved well beyond its desktop roots. And that means providing IT with tools that allow […]

The 87th Academy Awards won’t air until Feb. 22, but Microsoft believes it already knows who’s walking home with an Oscar. Keeping up its tradition of predicting the outcomes of awards, televised competitions and sporting events, Bing now delivers its picks for Sunday’s winners when users conduct Oscar-related searches on the site. “Whether you’re a […]

Microsoft’s Outlook apps for iOS and Android have been out only for a couple of weeks, but the company is already issuing updates to help spur adoption by business users. The apps are based on Acompli, which the software giant acquired on Dec. 1. Wasting little time, Microsoft has issued updates to the apps that […]

Microsoft has reached a major milestone in its cloud privacy efforts. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company’s Azure cloud computing platform has been certified ISO 27018-compliant by the British Standards Institution (BSI), a first for the industry, announced Lori Woehler, principal group manager of Microsoft’s Compliance and Trust unit. The testing and certification group found that […]

Microsoft is working to make Office synonymous with mobile productivity, and that means following users to their choice of cloud storage providers. “We want Office to be the preferred way to work with documents no matter where they’re stored,” declared Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Office, in a Feb. 17 announcement of two […]

Banks and financial services firms will be spending more in IT this year, according to Marcelo Marquez de la Garza, director of Worldwide Financial Services at Microsoft. Some investments will deliver a bigger bang for the buck, however. Big data will loom large over IT spending decisions this year as banks seek to attract new […]