Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft’s Surface 3, the company’s more portable follow-up to last year’s business-friendly Surface Pro 3 tablet, is now available in the United States, the company announced today. Prices start at $499. In addition to the U.S., buyers can also pick up a Surface 3 in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan […]

HoloLens, Microsoft’s buzz-worthy augmented-reality technology, wasn’t the only thing that resonated with the IT community following last week’s Build developer conference. How-Old.net, a Website where users upload photos and it guesses their age and gender, was a hit on social media and attracted widespread tech coverage over the weekend. Once photos are uploaded, the site […]

Microsoft today kicked off the Ignite conference for IT professionals in Chicago with several new announcements that the company says will help businesses better adapt to today’s cloud- and mobile-enabled business processes. Taking the place of Microsoft’s Management Summit, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project and TechEd conferences, Ignite reflects the Redmond, Wash., software giant’s own reorganization, […]

Cortana will soon start helping Windows 10 users not only hail an Uber car, but also anticipate their need for one. Microsoft and Uber have partnered “to create the type of end to end experience that will be an integral part of Cortana in the future,” announced Marcus Ash, a Microsoft program manager. The digital […]

Microsoft and Autodesk have partnered to incorporate the computer-aided design (CAD) software maker’s 3D printing software platform into Windows 10, the companies announced during this week’s Build conference in San Francisco. Autodesk is embedding Spark 3D in the upcoming operating system, a move the company hopes will help popularize the burgeoning 3D printing market. “3D […]

Windows 10 is an ambitious operating system, and for inspiration on how to translate its many capabilities to useful, visually engaging features for users on a multitude of device types, the company turned to the layout of urban areas. “Our design approach is evolving from our rich history in transportation graphics and the International Typographic […]

Azure SQL may have grabbed the big data spotlight at Build yesterday, but Microsoft has more services in store for businesses and developers that are eyeing a cloud-enabled future. Yesterday during the Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Azure SQL elastic databases, Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake, offerings aimed at […]

Microsoft has big hopes for its upcoming Windows 10 operating system, the company announced during its Build developer conference in San Francisco today. In a statement, the software giant announced “its ambition to have 1 billion active Windows 10 devices” by fiscal year 2018. Microsoft is currently in its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter, which ends […]

Microsoft unveiled new big data services today that tap the Redmond, Wash., company’s globe-spanning Azure cloud. With the Build developer conference in San Francisco as a backdrop, the company took the wraps off new Azure SQL Database elastic databases, Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake. Notwithstanding the impending crush of digital information that […]

Time has nearly run out for Windows Server 2003. Barring an unlikely reprieve, Microsoft will pull support on July 14, meaning that the steady stream of security updates and bug fixes customers had grown accustomed to for 12 years will dry up. Twelve years may seem like more than enough time to move on, particularly […]