Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft wants to help Windows developers quickly find and address performance issues that may bog down their applications and frustrate users. The software maker has launched a new online toolkit that developers can use to gauge how well their software is performing out in the wild and identify bugs and other potential issues that detract […]

Microsoft’s efforts to trim the size of its Windows Server Core containers is yielding results. Windows Server Core, along with Windows Nano Server, are a slimmed-down version of the operating system for virtualized and application container environments. They dispense with many non-essential software components, such as a full-blown UI, resulting in a lightweight package that […]

Microsoft’s latest educational technology push involves more than its growing ecosystem of low-cost Windows PCs for schools and making its Learning Tools more inclusive. During the Bett education conference, taking place Jan. 24-27 in London, Microsoft is showcasing other applications intended to help teachers and students maximize the learning experience each school day. Among them are […]

Key to stoking demand for Microsoft’s intelligent services is to make it easier for developers to tap into the software maker’s growing catalog of cloud-based artificial intelligence technologies. Accordingly, the company has added a code-free way of embedding Custom Vision Service models into applications. Part of the Azure Cognitive Services suite, Custom Vision Service is […]

Microsoft is rolling out new Learning Tools, the software maker announced on Jan. 22, in time for the Bett education conference in London Jan 24-27. Learning Tools, a suite of AI-assisted software helpers found in Office 365 Education, transforms the Office UI and adds text-to-speech functionality, among other capabilities, to improve reading comprehension and help […]

Microsoft is joining forces with PC companies to supply school districts with Windows devices that won’t break the bank. Just ahead of the Bett education conference in London, taking place Jan. 24-27, Microsoft took the wraps off four new budget-friendly Windows 10 PCs from Lenovo and JP Sá Couto, or JP for short. JP is […]

Researchers with security company FireEye are warning Microsoft Office users that Zyklon has resurfaced, and attackers are preying on a recently-discovered vulnerability in the productivity software suite to spread the modular malware. In addition to creating a backdoor to that can be used for password harvesting and keylogging, the malware can conscript infected systems into […]

Amazon, Apple and Google are among the many IT giants that are siding with Microsoft in a closely watched email privacy case that has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The industry heavyweights were among the 288 signatories on 23 amicus, or friend of the court, briefs filed on Jan. 18 in support […]

Microsoft has released a bevy of new updates to Power BI Desktop for January 2018. Power BI Desktop is the companion desktop authoring software to the company’s cloud-based business intelligence and analytics platform. The updates include new reporting functionality, including the ability to hide or show pages within a Power BI report. This option comes […]

Microsoft already has already developed an artificial intelligence application that turns images into descriptive text. For example, the software maker’s Seeing AI app for Apple iOS devices turns images captured by the camera into text that is then spoken aloud to visually impaired users. Now, the company’s researchers have built a new AI system, simply […]

Azure Security Center, Microsoft cloud-based security platform for customer instances, now supports custom assessments, allowing users to tailor the system to their needs. In its standard form, Azure Security Center uses a set of over 150 rules that are used to harden an operating system, spanning firewalls, password policies and other factors that contribute to […]

Microsoft has ditched the SCSI Enclosure Services requirement for Windows Server Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), a set of software-defined storage technologies that ship with the operating system. Server Storage Spaces Direct is a capacity-pooling technology that extends NAS- and SAN-like enterprise-grade storage management capabilities to direct-attached drives. The SCSI Enclosure Services protocol, meanwhile, is used […]