Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is adding new features to an upcoming version of Windows Server that are aimed at helping customers provide enterprise data storage services with commodity hardware. Members of Microsoft’s high availability and storage group—Claus Joergensen, a principal program manager, and Ned Pyle, a senior program manager—appeared on the company’s online video series, The Edge, to […]

Microsoft released a preview of its Skype Translator technology today as an app for Windows 8.1. Skype Translator, first demoed in May during the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., provides near-real-time translation of typed and spoken messages. At the event, Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice president of Skype and Lync, carried on a Skype […]

NEW YORK—A week after Microsoft filed its appeal of a controversial July 31 ruling on what’s become known as the Ireland Email Case, Microsoft’s top lawyer Brad Smith was joined by supporters to weigh in on the issues at stake if the ruling is upheld. In a panel led by former ABC News anchor Charlie […]

Microsoft is jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon. The company announced that as of Dec. 11 in the United States, “by using BitPay, the world’s leading bitcoin payment processor, you can trade-in bitcoin—at current market value—and add it to your Microsoft account,” in a blog post. “Those funds can then be used to purchase content in […]

Microsoft has finally flipped the switch on a series of enterprise-grade updates to its Azure cloud computing platform, which the Redmond, Wash.-based company first teased in a cloud-themed press event on Oct. 20. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, announced Azure Premium Storage, a high-performance cloud storage service backed by […]

Microsoft is making it easier for Office Online users to craft content without switching browser tabs. Insights for Office in Word Online is “a brand new feature that brings information you want into your document, in a seamlessly integrated experience that lets you explore as you are working,” said Rukmani Gopalan, a Microsoft Office program […]

Following a mobile-friendly makeover of the MSN Website, Microsoft has published MSN apps for iOS, Android and Amazon devices, the company announced today. Replacing the former Bing-branded apps, MSN News, Sports, Money, Health & Fitness, and Food & Drink provide a personalized, harmonious and synced user experience across device types and mobile operating systems. “Whether […]

Office files are a trove of metadata and other hidden information. If not managed properly, they can reveal more about an organization than users intend, potentially landing them in hot water. In updates for Office 2013 and 2010, Microsoft has added new tools to the Document Inspector feature in Excel, PowerPoint and Word, announced Steve […]

Microsoft Azure Government is ready for business, the software giant announced at its Government Cloud Summit in Washington, D.C., this week. “The Microsoft Cloud for Government is the most complete cloud for any government organization aiming to be more productive, agile and efficient in today’s mobile-first and cloud-first world,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in […]

Microsoft is updating Intune, the company’s cloud-based mobile device management (MDM) technology with new features, announced Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise. Chief among them are mobile application management (MAM) capabilities to help organizations gain control over their mobile data. “We are rolling out the containers (and everything associated with the […]