Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft’s new mobile-first, cloud-first strategy hinges largely on delivering products that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving tech marketplace, Office 365 included. By adopting an accelerated software release and update cadence, at least compared with its packaged software past, Microsoft seeks to keep its customers, and itself, closer to the cutting edge of computing […]

Microsoft is taking an unconventional approach to wearable tech compared to its rivals. Google has Google Glass, the company’s app-enabled smart glasses technology. Samsung offers the Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch, which links with the company’s smartphones. Apple, meanwhile, is rumored to be gearing up to for the release of a fitness and health monitoring “iWatch,” […]

Microsoft has released new sample code that enables Salesforce users to message one another to carry on Yammer-based conversations without alt-tabbing. “Yammer has developed a JavaScript SDK which allows you to easily integrate any Yammer feed to Salesforce with very few lines of code,” states a company tutorial that outlines the steps required to embed […]

The writing’s on the wall. Cloud-enabled enterprise mobile management is the future for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) administrators. SCCM is Microsoft’s PC and server management toolkit, which can be extended to cover mobile devices with the company’s cloud-based Windows Intune product. Expect the cloud to figure more heavily in the near future, according to […]

Microsoft wants to play a role in advancing the connected home, and it has teamed with American Family Insurance to bring new innovations to market. The companies announced on June 17 during Microsoft’s Global Startup Day event in San Francisco that they have launched a new Microsoft Ventures Accelerator at the software giant’s Redmond, Wash., […]

Microsoft is giving Bing a big upgrade in 2015, based on a fundamentally different computing foundation compared with commodity servers. Project Catapult, a collaboration between Microsoft Research and Bing, seeks to improve data center performance by up to 95 percent using an alternative to server processors called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The group’s work is […]

Developers can now get their hands on a version of Internet Explorer (IE) that contains upcoming features and expanded Web standards support. Dubbed Internet Explorer Developer Channel, the software is “a fully functioning browser designed to give Web developers and early adopters a sneak peek at the Web platform features we’re working on,” announced Microsoft […]

Next month, Microsoft will kick off a preview of Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML), a new cloud-based service aimed at helping businesses jump-start their predictive analytics initiatives. A Microsoft spokesperson commented in an email to eWEEK that the upcoming offering “will allow developers and data scientists to build advanced analytic cloud services in minutes and […]

Surface Pro 3, the newest x86-based tablet offering from Microsoft, is attracting the health care industry’s attention. It’s no secret that the Surface Pro line of Windows tablets is aimed at businesses, albeit not exclusively. According to Cyril Belikoff, senior director of the Microsoft Surface division, the device is already making some early waves among […]

Microsoft is championing the e-waste recycling movement. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech titan, along with Sony America, Xerox and Goodwill Industries, has been named a founding member of R2 Leaders, an electronics recycling group that aims to keep used gadgets and PCs out of landfills. “This reflects Microsoft’s commitment to support the development of standards for […]

Data privacy on the cloud is serious business for Microsoft. And so the company is letting its users know its privacy policy for its cloud services in advance of the release of an updated Microsoft Services Agreement (MSA) that is due to take effect later this summer. On July 31, Microsoft will update the user […]

The Outlook Web App (OWA) for Android, first announced during the Microsoft Exchange Conference in March, is now just making its way to select smartphones powered by Google’s market-leading mobile operating system. As noted by Greg Baribault, principal group program manager of the company’s Exchange Engineering Team, during a session at MEC, the new app […]