Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft wants to help business users unearth insights that may be locked away in Excel workbooks with the latest update to Power BI Desktop. Formerly called Power BI Designer, Power BI Desktop is the free data exploration and interactive reporting tool that enables users to run analytics on various sources of business data, including Google […]

Microsoft seems determined to eliminate whatever hurdles may stifle collaboration among users of the company’s mobile apps. The latest move on that front involves updating its well-regarded Outlook app for iOS so that it handles Office files better, providing a more seamless experience for users. “Outlook for iOS now opens Office documents sent as attachments […]

Considering it made its official debut well over a year ago, Microsoft’s well-received Surface Pro 3 tablet is more than ready for a refresh. According to WPDang, a Chinese technology news site, Microsoft will unveil its successor—along with several other Windows 10 devices and a couple of surprises—in an early October event. According to the […]

Microsoft is bullish on software-defined networking (SDN) if for no other reason than the technology’s ability to help it provide Azure cloud services to millions of users. The Redmond, Wash-IT giant is presenting at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 (Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications) conference, currently taking place in London. There, […]

Microsoft today announced a new Bing application programming interface (API) that fetches the information mobile app users seek without having to switch to a mobile browser or search app. The new API’s capabilities “allow developers to directly integrate the [Bing] knowledge graph into their apps,” Ryan Gavin, general manager of Microsoft Bing, told eWEEK. Interested […]

Microsoft today released the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016, marking the first time the public can test Windows Server Containers. The DevOps-enabling technology helps remove many of the bottlenecks that slow the business application deployment process, ultimately stifling innovation, Mike Schutz, general manager of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform, told eWEEK. […]

Microsoft released a critical, out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer (IE) that affects several versions of the Web browser on multiple Windows operating systems. “The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer,” stated Microsoft in an Aug. 18 security bulletin. “An attacker who successfully […]

Windows 10, the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system is a hit among consumers. With 14 million devices running the software a day after its July 29 launch, the OS is off to a strong start. Now, the Redmond, Wash., software giant is looking to bring businesses onboard with a new set of management […]

Docker and a growing number of application container virtualization technologies are not only taking the data center by storm, they’re spawning an ecosystem of IT solutions to help businesses monitor, manage and orchestrate their newly containerized environments. Microsoft, too, is getting in on the act with the next version of its server operating system. “In […]

A few weeks after the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft has enabled a new automatic mobile device management (MDM) enrollment feature for the new operating system powered by Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium and Intune. “By combining login, Azure AD Join and Intune MDM enrollment in one easy step, we’ve made it drop-dead simple to bring […]