Pedro Hernandez

Instead of taking the summer off, Microsoft is getting to work on implementing some frequently requested features for the company’s school-themed OneNote offerings. Formerly the Microsoft Office suite’s note-taking application, OneNote has evolved into a multiplatform, cloud-backed service that allows users to capture, organize, sync and share notes across devices. For educational institutions, the company […]

Microsoft is finally closing a major gap in its Office mobile app portfolio. Jared Spataro, general manager of Microsoft Office 365 marketing, announced on May 19 that the company has released preview versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android smartphones such as Samsung’s new flagship, the Galaxy S6. Microsoft released a limited preview of […]

Microsoft is moving fast to incorporate its new Outlook mobile apps for iOS and Android into the company’s cloud-enabled mobile device management (MDM) platform, dubbed Enterprise Mobility Suite. Microsoft released the mobile version of the Outlook email client earlier this year, after acquiring the Francisco-based mobile email startup behind the popular Acompli app for iOS […]

Microsoft wants to make sifting through time-wasting emails a thing of the past. Clutter, an Office 365 technology that organizes Outlook inboxes to surface important and task-related emails, will be switched on by default in June, the company announced. Office 365 tenants enrolled in the First Release program will be switched over on June 1; […]

Microsoft has added bring-your-own-region support to Power Map for Excel as part of the May 2015 update for Office 365. Power Map, formerly GeoFlow, enables users of the popular spreadsheet application to visually overlay data over 2D and 3D maps provided by Bing Maps. Custom Regions “allows data to be mapped to the regions that […]

Microsoft is clarifying its stance on upgrading pirated versions of the company’s flagship operating system to Windows 10. In March, after announcing that the new OS would launch this summer, Microsoft caused a stir in tech circles by revealing that Windows 10 upgrades can be applied to copies of the software that were attained by […]

Extending its “lockbox” approach to securing data on the cloud, Microsoft’s research arm today announced a new technology dubbed Verifiable Confidential Cloud Computing, or VC3. Last year, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced a new process for safeguarding cloud data called a lockbox. Encompassing a set of technologies, along with strict policies and IT practices […]

Windows 10 will come in a variety of flavors when Microsoft releases the ambitious new operating system (OS) later this year, the company announced this week. “As in the past, we will offer different Windows editions that are tailored for various device families and uses,” Tony Prophet, corporate vice president of Windows and Search Marketing […]

OneNote, Microsoft’s application for taking notes and clipping content, can now decipher handwritten notes, allowing users to find notes they scribbled with their styluses. “Starting today, you can now search your handwritten notes that are in OneNote notebooks saved to OneDrive—just like you can search through typed text and text within images,” wrote Greg Akselrod […]

ORLANDO, FLA.—Citrix and the IT industry at large will soon face workforces with more of an independent streak and the challenges of wrangling billions of devices on the Internet of things, according to the company’s new 2020 Technology Landscape report. Hinting at what customers might expect from the company’s own Workspace-centric product strategy, the company’s […]