Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft has trimmed its conference calendar for 2015. Frank X. Shaw, corporate vice president of communications at Microsoft, announced Ignite, a unified enterprise technology that combines several individually held events. “For the first time ever, we’re putting under one roof the education, vision and guidance for the full spectrum of our enterprise solutions,” he wrote […]

Each day, Microsoft prevents billions of spam messages from landing in customer inboxes. The software giant blocks 10 million such emails each minute on average, revealed the company’s Exchange Online Protection (EOP) team in an Oct. 15 blog post. That adds up to more than 14 billion blocked messages per day. Spam is more than […]

Transit Wireless, a public wireless infrastructure specialist, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials gathered today in Manhattan to announce the completion of Phase 2 of a project to bring cellular and WiFi service to all 277 underground stations. Phase 2 involved connecting 40 stations, 11 in Manhattan and 29 in the borough of Queens. Newly […]

Apple’s super-sized smartphone, the iPhone 6 Plus, is influencing how developers code their iOS apps. Microsoft today announced the release of Skype 5.6 for iPhone. The app update “brings an optimized, scaled UI to the larger iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ screen sizes,” wrote Skype product marketing manager Lara Kingwell in an Oct. 15 blog […]

Microsoft upped its cloud analytics game at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York by announcing Apache Storm support in HDInsight, the company’s cloud-based distribution of Hadoop, a popular open-source big data processing platform. “Available in preview today, we are supporting Apache Storm in HDInsight, allowing our customers to process millions of items […]

Microsoft has launched a new mobile app that allows users to send video messages that self-destruct after two weeks. Called Skype Qik, the app allows users to record short videos and share them with friends. The resulting back-and-forth creates a video-rich “chat movie.” After two weeks, “and everyone has forgotten about it,” according to Microsoft, […]

Months after announcing a strategic partnership, Microsoft and leading cloud CRM software vendor Salesforce have officially taken the wraps off the joint products that will link the their business software ecosystems. First teased during a May 29 announcement, the companies unveiled the Salesforce1 app for Windows at the DreamForce conference in San Francisco. The app, […]

Microsoft isn’t giving up on its home-grown tablet, according to CEO Satya Nadella. Overshadowed by his controversial comments concerning women’s pay on Oct. 9, remarks from Microsoft’s chief executive reaffirmed the company’s continued support of the Surface, even if he is striking a more business-oriented tone. “We believe a strength of the Microsoft platform for […]

Microsoft’s machine learning research helped Bing properly predict the outcome of the World Cup. Now, the company is trying its hand at elections. The company launched Bing Elections today, a resource guide to the 2014 midterm elections in the United States, which includes Microsoft’s predicted wins in each race. This year, a number of U.S. […]

Rock-solid uptime and a wealth of enterprise-friendly features mean nothing if cloud security isn’t up to snuff. After a bruising year spent countering allegations that it helped the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) snoop on its cloud services, Microsoft’s is assuring customers that the Office 365 is protected by multiple layers of encryption. And that […]