Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is renovating its Windows Store, adding some new mobile app management features in preparation for the release of Windows 10. Chief among the new capabilities, at least for administrators charged with overseeing their end-user IT environments, is mobile device management support, announced Jim Alkove, head of the Windows enterprise program management team. “With Windows […]

Microsoft, eager to put the days of email attachments behind, announced new updates today that help Office users collaborate on files without venturing into their inboxes. First, is a new release of the Office Mobile app for Android handsets. The updated app makes “it easier to access, edit and share online Office files from your […]

Microsoft is applying its machine learning research to images and the unspoken information they may contain. Microsoft Research Distinguished Scientist and Deputy Director John Platt and his team have been working on software that automatically captions images. The project began this summer, when a multi-disciplinary team of experts decided to tackle the challenge of distilling […]

Although Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) is not being officially rebranded until next year, Microsoft is now offering customers a sneak peek of what the upgraded identity management solution will look like. Following the Redmond, Wash.-based software company’s new eponymous naming convention, FIM will become Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) when the next version is released in […]

Microsoft’s upcoming cloud-based Office 365 Video offering for businesses will allow users to upload, share and manage video content. But what if they want to lend their videos a professional touch or add a little flair? As it turns out, Microsoft is already working on updating a pre-existing tool for that, namely Office Mix. Office […]

Microsoft has rolled out new features aimed at making its Azure StorSimple cloud-connected storage appliances for data centers easier to manage and play better with other network resources. Manu Aery, a senior program manager in Microsoft’s Cloud + Enterprise division, announced a handful of new updates for the company’s StorSimple hardware and cloud storage solution. […]

Microsoft wants to make it easier for businesses to manage and share their videos with a new cloud-based offering called Office 365 Video. According to Mark Kashman, senior product manager for Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Video is the “first of many NextGen Portals,” SharePoint-inspired smart hubs that act as social, shareable and mobile destinations […]

Microsoft today announced a new Azure capability enabled by a Script Action feature that allows customers to tailor their HDInsight implementations. “With this new feature, you can now experiment and deploy Hadoop projects to Azure HDInsight that were not possible before,” wrote Oliver Chiu, product marketing manager for Microsoft Hadoop/big data and data warehousing, in […]

Microsoft is issuing an update to Intune, its cloud-based mobile-device management (MDM) solution that offers new functionality while dispensing with its signature branding. The service update is being rolled out between Nov. 17 and Nov. 18, announced the Microsoft Intune team in a blog post today. The update applies to the stand-alone edition of Intune. […]

Microsoft is making its Skype technology available via Skype.com, providing the platform’s 300 million users an alternative to mobile and PC apps. “We’re starting to roll-out a brand new way of using Skype,” announced Jonathan Watson, a Skype senior product marketing manager, in a Nov. 14 blog post. Alluding to the many devices and operating […]

Microsoft wants to help enterprises keep an eye on their cloud environments and make informed, data-driven decisions. The company has launched a preview of Azure Operational Insights, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) data center monitoring solution for Microsoft environments that is aimed at improving visibility into IT organizations’ on-premises and public cloud resources. “Leveraging the power of […]

Microsoft has added new gestures and revised the taskbar as part of a new Windows 10 preview build. After a teasing the updated software on Twitter, Gabriel Aul, Data and Fundamentals lead in Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group, announced that build 9879 was available for download in a Nov. 12 tweet. “Welcome inside our #Windows10 shiproom […]