Pedro Hernandez

Businesses running Office 2013 can now test out the new, security-enhancing Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) sign-in features, announced Microsoft. “Office 2013 client modern authentication features have moved from private preview to public preview,” Paul Andrew, technical product manager for Identity Management on the Office 365 team, said in a statement. “This means the program […]

Microsoft is bringing the company’s productivity apps to more Android devices by inking some major new OEM deals, announced the Redmond, Wash., software maker this week. During the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this month, Microsoft announced that Samsung would preinstall OneNote, Skype, and the OneDrive file storage and sync app, […]

Microsoft Translator, the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker’s cloud-based language translation service, welcomed three new languages this week. “We are happy to announce that we have added three new languages—Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian—to our list of supported languages,” announced the Microsoft Translator Team in a March 19 statement. “This brings the total number of languages supported […]

Office 365 ProPlus customers will soon have more control over the productivity suite’s impact on IT operations. ProPlus is similar to other Microsoft Office 365 plans, but differs in how Office applications are deployed. “Office 365 ProPlus uses a technology called Click-to-Run to install Office. It provides a faster installation, so users can be up […]

Making good on their promise earlier this year to deliver a mobile point-of-sale (POS) solution for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), Microsoft and PayPal have officially launched PayPal Here for Surface. “In January [at the National Retail Federation show], Surface and PayPal announced plans to introduce a mobile payment solution designed to help solve these […]

The Microsoft-Salesforce partnership continues to bear fruit with the release of a beta version of the Salesforce App for Outlook. “This exciting integration gives you a brand new way to experience Salesforce, right from Outlook and Office 365. Even better, it’s 100 percent cloud based with nothing to install,” said Ryan Aytay, senior vice president […]

Windows 10 will be debuting this summer, Microsoft announced on March 18 at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) summit in Shenzhen, China. Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft’s operating system group, said in a statement: “Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages.” The Redmond, Wash.-based company reiterated that the […]

The cloud computing market has evolved, offering more opportunities for vendors that venture beyond providing the essentials of getting business clouds off the ground. A Microsoft-commissioned survey (PDF) of 1,700 hosting and cloud customers worldwide conducted by 451 Research reveals that in terms of IT spend, 70 percent of the opportunity for cloud providers now […]

Office 365 customers seeking to add an extra layer of security and minimize service disruptions will soon be able to use a secure connectivity option that is currently available for other Azure-backed cloud services from Microsoft. ExpressRoute, a private, secure link to Microsoft’s Azure data centers via partner network and data center operators, is coming […]

Office Delve is branching out, digging into more data sources and reaching more territories. During Microsoft’s business-themed Convergence 2015 conference this week in Atlanta, the company announced that more Office 365 customers can take Office Delve for a spin. In a March 16 blog post, Julia White, general manager for Office 365, said, “We are […]