Pedro Hernandez

At the Convergence 2015 business technology conference, taking place in Atlanta this week, Microsoft is preparing businesses with the next big opportunity, the Internet of things (IoT). Empowerment was a major theme of CEO Satya Nadella’s March 16 keynote address. While onstage, he said Microsoft is focused on empowering users and organizations to “achieve more […]

A preview of Skype for Business, set to replace Lync, is now available for organizations that want to get an early jump on preparing for its release, which is currently scheduled for next month. “I am thrilled to announce that the technical preview of the Skype for Business client starts today, and that the new […]

Microsoft has updated its OneNote Clipper browser add-on, offering users more control over the content they collect from the Web. Once installed, OneNote Clipper integrates with OneNote, allowing users to incorporate their Web surfing discoveries into the company’s cloud-enabled note-taking app. “Responding to some of the more popular requests from Clipper users, in this update, […]

SAP, the German business software giant, has certified Microsoft SQL Server 2014 to run its NetWeaver-based applications. NetWeaver is the software foundation that underpins many of SAP’s applications and enables them to integrate with other applications. “Now you can run even more of your Tier-1, mission-critical workloads on SQL Server,” Microsoft’s SQL team announced in […]

A few months after kicking off its government cloud offering, Microsoft adds new media services, Oracle virtual machine images and new regional virtual network options. Microsoft’s government customers can now stream media, fire up Oracle databases and set up regional virtual networks on Azure. The Redmond, Wash.-based technology company launched Azure Government Cloud in the […]

OneDrive users will soon have more of a desktop-like file management experience on the service’s Web-based client. Microsoft is updating the OneDrive Web interface that should make keyboard and mouse users feel right at home. “We’re adding a simple right-click menu to make it easier to access the most common actions you want to perform […]

Microsoft has updated Bing Webmaster Tools with new monitoring and reporting options that users can employ to fight back against fraudulent Websites that may be tarnishing their presumably good names. A preview of the feature, simply called Track Certificates, is found under the Security section, which also now contains the Malware Re-Evaluation tool and “allows […]

Microsoft made waves last year when it announced that it had joined Facebook’s Open Compute Project (OCP), a syndicate of technology organizations promoting innovation in energy-efficient, open-specification hardware for cloud and Web-scale data centers. Microsoft contributed a server design, dubbed the Open CloudServer specification (OCS), that packs up to 23 commodity servers in a 12U […]

Tech titans Microsoft and Google, have been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for 2015. Commenting on the accolade, Lori Forte Harnick, general manager for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Microsoft, brought up the theme of trust, which has emerged as a call to arms for the multinational corporation […]

NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard has slimmed down its LaserJet line of business printers and overhauled its toner technology in a product launch that the Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company is describing as its “most significant laser printing re-engineering since the introduction of the first LaserJet in 1984.” In a media event here in New York, HP executives […]