Pedro Hernandez

Google first raised eyebrows in the waning days of 2014 when it publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 8.1. In Google’s report of the privilege-escalation bug, the company noted that its 90-day disclosure deadline—the time between a vulnerability being reported privately and a patch subsequently being made available—had elapsed. Microsoft failed to issue a […]

As promised back in October as part of an expansion of the Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud capabilities, the company has made its new G-Series virtual machines (VM) for Azure generally available. G-Series is the new king of Azure VMs, according to Corey Sanders, director of program management for Microsoft Azure. “G-series sizes provide the most memory, […]

Office Sway for iPhone, Microsoft’s software for creating mobile-friendly interactive presentations, is now available beyond the shores of Australia and New Zealand. Sway, also available as a browser-based cloud application, is a departure from traditional desktop presentation software tools like Microsoft’s own PowerPoint. Using drag-and-drop authoring tools, users can combine images, videos and text into […]

Windows 10 is shaping up to be a big departure from Windows 8.x, apart from the return of the Start menu and new features like multiple desktop support. Microsoft is reportedly working on a new Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser, code-named “Spartan,” for the 2015 release of Windows 10 operating system. Initial leaks indicate that […]

Office Delve users can now organize their cards with a new feature called “boards.” Delve is a mobile-optimized app that automatically surfaces situationally relevant information and interactions on “cards,” visual and sharable representations of documents, discussions and other content shared over the Office 365 platform. It is powered by Office Graph, content discovery and machine […]

Microsoft has nixed the registration requirement for the Office for Android Tablet preview, the company announced in a Jan. 6 blog post. “Starting today, anyone can go to Google Play and download the Word, Excel and PowerPoint preview apps,” stated Microsoft. “No waitlist. No requesting access. Just go and download the apps!” Launched two months […]

Microsoft today released a major new update for Parature, the software maker’s self-service customer relationship management (CRM) offering. Featuring “over 30 high-priority customer capabilities,” the Parature Spring ’15 update is “the largest release in Parature history,” according to Bill Patterson, senior director of customer self-service solutions at Microsoft. Microsoft completed the acquisition of Parature, a […]

Satellite TV provider Dish Network has lined up a major partner for its new live TV video streaming service. Sling TV, which enables consumers to watch TV programming over their broadband connections without a cable subscription, is coming to Microsoft’s Xbox One gaming and media streaming consoles, the companies announced on Jan. 5, coinciding with […]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for the U.S. Government is now generally available, Kirill Tatarinov, executive vice president of the Microsoft Business Solutions Group, announced today. First announced in December, Dynamics CRM Online for the U.S. Government leverages the Redmond, Wash.-based IT giant’s federally certified cloud data centers to deliver customer relationship management (CRM) software capabilities […]

Pixel-packed 4K displays, the Internet of things for the home and the latest crop of wearables are vying for attention at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), now under way in Las Vegas. Also on deck are new devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Intel’s newest processors. Among them is Lenovo’s ThinkPad […]