Pedro Hernandez

In its bid to make Office synonymous with mobile productivity, Microsoft has updated its cloud-based Intune mobile device management (MDM) platform to integrate with Office apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) running on Android devices. Currently being rolled out to Intune customers, the February update allows customers to manage employee use of the apps, similar to […]

Microsoft wants to help customers of its cloud-based “search-as-a-service” offering, dubbed simply Azure Search, deliver more relevant results to their users. Azure Search first launched as a preview on Aug. 21, 2014, along with Azure DocumentDB, the company’s stab at NoSQL document storage services. Liam Cavanagh, senior program manager of Azure Search, announced that his […]

Adobe may be the go-to maker of image editing and processing software, but Microsoft has some pixelsmiths of its own. The company has released an update to its Image Composite Editor (ICE), which hails from its Microsoft Research division. While not as well-known as Microsoft’s Windows, Office and Skype offerings, the free software has found […]

Windows 10 testers have a new perk, Microsoft announced this week. Universal Office Apps are available to participants of the Windows Insider early access program. Select universal Office apps are now available for download, announced Microsoft spokesperson Brandon LeBlanc in a Feb. 4 blog post. “Today, Office is making available their Word, Excel and PowerPoint […]

Microsoft is snapping up another mobile app maker. After acquiring email app specialist Acompli on Dec. 1 for an undisclosed amount, reports are circulating that the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has set its sights on another startup. This time, it’s New York City’s Sunrise Atelier Inc., the company behind the free Sunrise Calendar app for […]

Debuting as a preview release last summer, DocumentDB is the Redmond, Wash.-based software company’s answer to an industry shift toward non-relational data stores as organizations seek to build Web-scale and mobile applications and services. Companies like Twitter and eBay, the latter of which uses a NoSQL Database from Couchbase, have adopted the technology. For Microsoft’s […]

In a bid to boost Yammer collaboration, Microsoft is connecting all the dots in terms of mobile device support. Microsoft product manager Carlos Bohórquez Marín announced new Yammer updates on Feb. 3 that are aimed at enabling users to stay in touch across a wider variety of devices. And, in the case of Apple fans, […]

Microsoft’s “cloud-first” product strategy is reshaping SharePoint, the tech giant’s collaboration platform for businesses. Despite a cloudier approach, however, customers of the on-premises server version of the software needn’t worry that they’re getting left behind, wrote Julia White, general manager of Office Product Management. In a lengthy Office Blogs post detailing SharePoint’s new intelligent, productivity-enhancing […]

Microsoft wants to make it easier for its Dynamics CRM Online channel partners that serve small and midsized businesses (SMBs) to expand their market opportunities. Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft’s cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software platform, is now part of the Redmond, Wash.-based company’s Open Licensing Program for channel partners, announced Neil Holloway, corporate vice […]

OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud-based file sync and storage service, now offers Apple device users new, more intuitive ways of managing and organizing their files. A new version of the OneDrive for Business iOS app, released on Jan. 28, dispenses with the need to install and bounce between two apps to view and share their business and […]