Pedro Hernandez

IBM is kicking off a five-day event on Feb. 3, 2014, that spans more than 40 countries and will bring together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, company executives and academic leaders in a series of virtual and in-person gatherings. IBM Entrepreneur Week honors innovation and the tech startups that are laying the groundwork for a smarter planet. […]

Microsoft is reportedly preparing an update for its Xbox One game console that, if all goes according to plan, will smooth over some of the device’s less-than-seamless social features. During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten told Engadget’s Ben Gilbert, that Microsoft is working on fixing “the Live […]

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8, 2014, more than 12 years since the desktop operating system first launched in 2001. Users hoping to eke a few more months, perhaps years, out of the OS, were dealt another blow by Microsoft. In addition to putting a stop to security patches as updates for […]

Expect Microsoft to spotlight big data, mobility and enterprise social during the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) gathering in New York City next week. Ahead of the convention, staffers have taken to the company’s official blogs to preview some of the tech Microsoft has in store for retailers. Kristin Flandreau, Americas business group lead for Windows […]

A new year offers new opportunities for environmentally friendly technologies, and Microsoft is constantly scanning the horizon for ways to advance its efforts to help drive the industry toward a greener path and lessen the impact of its own operations, according to Robert Bernard, chief environmental strategist for Microsoft. Bernard said in a blog post […]

Ford CEO Alan Mulally is no longer a frontrunner in Microsoft’s search for a CEO to replace departing Steve Ballmer. Mulally told the Associated Press in a Jan. 7 interview that he “would like to end the Microsoft speculation.” Shutting down the possibility of heading up the software giant, he added, “I have no other […]

Microsoft is opening a new front in the search engine wars with a Bing-powered Website widget that adds supplemental information to Web content. The new Bing Knowledge widget is based on Bing Snapshots, “modules that intelligently serve up information about key ‘entities’ (like people, places, TV shows),” wrote Microsoft’s Steve Wiens in a blog post […]

Microsoft has acquired Parature, a Herndon, Va.-based customer service software specialist, the software behemoth announced Jan. 6. Sources close to the deal told TechCrunch that the transaction is valued at $100 million. Parature’s cloud-based software platform enables businesses to deliver customer-facing self-service capabilities. Capabilities include social customer support, support ticketing and mobile customer care, among […]

As Microsoft’s CEO search continues into the new year, the company’s past is reportedly causing candidates to keep their distance. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, candidates are wary of the lingering presence of current CEO Steve Ballmer and legendary co-founder (and ex-CEO) Bill Gates on the company’s board after a new […]

Microsoft officially quit the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in 2012. This year, the software giant is back but not to the same degree as in the past. The company still enjoys a strong presence at CES, thanks to its OEM partners. And it’s the efforts of those partners that Microsoft staffers […]

Microsoft is making room for more Linux distros on its virtualization platform with the release of Linux Integration Services 3.5 (LIS 3.5) for Hyper-V. Linux Integration Services is a driver package that provides “synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V,” describes Microsoft in the product download page. Specifically, the software provides driver […]

Like its predecessor, the Surface Pro 2 won over reviewers and power users with its ability to run full-featured Windows software in a sleek tablet form factor. Now, new buyers have a little more reason to make the move to Microsoft’s business-oriented tablet. Microsoft has upgraded the Surface Pro 2’s processor, replacing its Intel Core […]