Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft announced today that it had acquired San Francisco-based mobile email startup Acompli for an undisclosed amount. Acompli is a free, business-focused email app for Apple iOS and Android devices. Based on the notion that one app should handle practically all email- and calendar-related functions with minimal typing, it features a “Focused Inbox,” which intelligently […]

Microsoft’s partnership with Salesforce has officially expanded into the realm of business intelligence and analytics. First teased during the DreamForce conference last month, Microsoft has issued an update for Power Query that enables users to explore Salesforce data. Backed by Microsoft’s Power BI technology, Power Query, as its former code name “Data Explorer” suggests, allows […]

As promised, Dropbox and Microsoft are knocking down the walls between their productivity and file collaboration offerings. In a brief Nov. 25 blog post, Dropbox Product Manager Matthew Jaffe announced that his company’s mobile apps now supported Office file editing. “Now it’s easy to work on the Office files you’ve stored in Dropbox even when […]

In a year of major changes for the company, Microsoft has reached a big environmental milestone. The Redmond, Wash.-based company announced in a Microsoft UK blog post today that it achieved carbon neutrality in 2014. Microsoft writer Mike Anderiesz noted that the company accomplished the feat “less than two years after committing to the principle.” […]

‘Tis the season for more spam. With the holidays approaching, Microsoft is currently rolling out an update for its Exchange Online Protection (EOP) service that is meant to help users deal with the onslaught of email promotions and cut down on the inbox clutter. EOP is a cloud-based enterprise email security product that filters spam […]

As the IT industry scrambles to outfit the burgeoning and potentially lucrative market for Internet of things (IoT) technologies, Microsoft has already settled into the role of a cyber-crime fighter. IoT will roil the IT industry in the coming years, industry watchers predict. From smart cities to smart homes, billions of sensors and devices are […]

Cortana and Siri are at it again in a new TV commercial from Microsoft. The latest in a series of advertisements poking fun at Apple’s Siri once again pits the digital assistants against one another. This time, Microsoft takes aim at Siri’s new phablet-sized home, the iPhone 6 Plus. While cheery music loops in the […]

After a recent update, users will notice that mobile and desktop search results differ in some significant ways, according to Mir Rosenberg, a principal program manager with the Bing Mobile Relevance Team. Simply shrinking desktop results doesn’t cut it in a “mobile-first,” “cloud-first” world, she suggested in a blog post. “Most of you search from […]

Microsoft is renovating its Windows Store, adding some new mobile app management features in preparation for the release of Windows 10. Chief among the new capabilities, at least for administrators charged with overseeing their end-user IT environments, is mobile device management support, announced Jim Alkove, head of the Windows enterprise program management team. “With Windows […]

Microsoft, eager to put the days of email attachments behind, announced new updates today that help Office users collaborate on files without venturing into their inboxes. First, is a new release of the Office Mobile app for Android handsets. The updated app makes “it easier to access, edit and share online Office files from your […]