Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft has updated its Dynamics 365 for Retail, offering customers new ways to track inventory, fill orders and keep sales associates in the loop. During NRF 2018, the National Retail Federation’s conference in New York City Jan. 14-16, Microsoft, showed off some of the new features the software maker has baked into its cloud-enabled business […]

Microsoft’s researchers in China have crossed a significant artificial intelligence threshold, and their innovations may pave the way for smarter search engines and virtual assistants. A new AI model submitted by Microsoft Research Asia now sits atop the SQuAD leaderboard with a score of 82.650 on the Exact Match portion of the benchmark. SQuAD, short […]

It may be tough to find a library-quiet corner of a bustling office or home to get some work done, but the expanded Quiet Hours feature for Windows 10 can at least help keep the distractions at bay. Presently users can do little more than turn Quiet Hours on and off, similar to the “do […]

Private, end-to-end encrypted conversations are coming to Skype courtesy of Signal, the secure messaging technology and app from Open Whisper Systems. Powered by the open source Signal Protocol, the Signal mobile app fully encrypts data, allowing users to send text-based messages, videos and audio while thwarting third-party attempts to snoop on their communications. The protocol […]

Lenovo made its contribution to the “Always Connected PC” cause with the Miix 630, a 2-in-1 detachable-screen notebook PC that runs Windows on an Arm architecture Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. Always Connected PCs are a device class from Microsoft hardware partners that use Arm chips similar to those found in high-end smartphones and tablets, rather […]

PowerShell Core 6.0 is now generally available, following the release candidate that Microsoft let loose in November 2017. The open-source tool, separate from the edition of PowerShell that ships with Microsoft’s flagship Windows operating system, is available for Mac, Linux and, of course, Windows. PowerShell Core 6.0 represents a major change in direction for a […]

Windows users with AMD-based PCs aren’t the only ones who are facing delays in receiving patches for the critical Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities. Microsoft is blocking downloads of the security updates on devices running antivirus software that is incompatible with the emergency patches the company recently issued. According to an online support document, antivirus […]

Alexa and Google Assistant are making waves at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, but Microsoft is advising the industry not to count Cortana as strong contender in the digital assistant race. A handful of PC makers, including HP, Acer and Asus, are integrating Amazon’s Alexa into some of their upcoming Windows 10 PCs, a move […]

Building on the fleet management capabilities that were recently introduced in its Bing Maps APIs, Microsoft has also enhanced the platform’s geocoding and routing capabilities, improving the speed and accuracy of apps based on the software giant’s mapping technology. The improvements are part of a multi-year project to build a new backend geocoder, according to […]

After the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre processor flaws, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 will act a little differently, even if it’s not obvious to users. As part of Microsoft’s response to the CPU vulnerabilities that have put much of the IT industry on edge, the software maker is changing how its web […]

Harnessing and commercializing cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology innovations, is more than a profit-generating business strategy for Microsoft. Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at the Redmond, Wash. software giant, believes they can also help solve some of world’s most pressing problems. In a new edition of A Cloud for Global […]

Meltdown and Spectre are already causing trouble, even if there’s no evidence that cyber-attackers have weaponized the critical processor flaws. On Jan. 3, the Google Project Zero team of security researchers published its findings on the two CPU vulnerabilities that collectively affect most modern processors from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Arm. Microsoft was […]