Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is planning to release a developer preview of Windows Phone 9 soon after the new year. According to a NokiaPowerUser report, sources expect Microsoft to release an early developer version of the Windows Phone 8.1 successor in January 2015. The report also indicates that the mobile operating system will run on less than cutting-edge […]

Microsoft is gearing up for the release of the next major update to its customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Dynamics CRM 2015, the company announced today. The revamped CRM software, along with enhancements to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Dynamics Marketing services, is scheduled to ship during the fourth quarter of 2014. New features […]

Microsoft’s pursuit of tablet-wielding workforces continues with the recent releases of iOS, Android and Windows apps for Dynamics NAV, the Redmond, Wash.-based company’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platform for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). With little fanfare, new tablet-optimized Dynamics NAV applications have snuck onto the Apple App Store, Google Play and Windows Store. […]

Proving recent reports true, Microsoft announced today that it is acquiring Mojang, maker of Minecraft, for $2.5 billion. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant expects the deal to close this year and for its investment to break even during its current 2015 fiscal year. (Microsoft’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.) Comments made […]

Five months after first announcing Skype TX, software that enables broadcasters to incorporate Skype video calls into their television production workflows, Microsoft announced that the product has been released to manufacturing. First unveiled April 7, during the National Association of Broadcasters’ 2014 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Skype TX is a toolset that allows television […]

Microsoft has scrapped the 2-gigabyte file size limit on its OneDrive cloud storage service. While it may take users a while to transfer that much data, they “can now upload files up to 10GB using the desktop apps for Windows and Mac, all of the mobile apps, and the OneDrive Website,” announced Jason Moore, group […]

What Windows 8? Screenshots of a technical preview of Microsoft’s Windows 9 operating system have surfaced online, courtesy of two German Websites, Computer Base and WinFuture. Notably, one of the screenshots seems to confirm that the OS update, code-named “Threshold,” will ship with more desktop-friendly features than its predecessor and mark a break from the […]

New technology from Microsoft may make pouring through hours of audio recordings and videos for the right content a thing of the past. Launched on Sept. 10, Microsoft Azure Media Services Indexer leverages technology from the company’s research division to extract “keywords from a video file as metadata that can be used for categorization of […]

What Minecraft lacks in finesse, it more than makes up in popularity. According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire privately held Mojang, the Swedish maker of the multiplatform game, for more than $2 billion drawn from the company’s overseas war chest Eschewing cutting-edge graphics for […]

Cortana is already one of Windows Phone 8.1’s standout features, but an experiment in China may add a conversational twist to the company’s Bing-powered answer to Siri. In July, a social assistant called XiaoIce (little ice) was unleashed on Chinese social networks, including Touchpal and the 700-million-user microblogging site Weibo, according to Stefan Weitz, senior […]

Following up the Xbox One’s August update, which came loaded with social features, Microsoft is making it easier for users that have purchased the Kinect-less version of the console to explore its multitasking capabilities. In a late Sept. 8 Xbox Wire post, Larry Hryb (Major Nelson), director of programming for Xbox Live, said that September […]

Six months after previewing its personalized, collaboration-enhancing Office Delve app, formerly known as “Oslo,” Microsoft began rolling out the technology to Office 365 business customers on Sept. 8, announced Julia White, general manager, Office 365 technical product management. “Office Delve is a new way to discover relevant information and connections from across your work life,” […]