Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is making it easier for administrators to manage their SharePoint Online storage capacity with new automated controls and features that lend increased visibility into their environments. Mark Kashman, a SharePoint senior product manager, detailed the changes in an Aug. 18 Office Blogs post. The additions are part of “a new storage model based on […]

Microsoft is quickly having to come to grips with one of the major drawbacks of its “cloud-first” strategy: service outages. Since Aug. 15, the company has been beset with outages affecting its Azure cloud computing platform, which powers the company’s growing infrastructure- and software-as-a-service portfolio. The interruptions culminated on Aug. 18 with widespread reports of […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer engineering team is aware that the company’s browser is a source of frustration among IT professionals and Web developers. So the group is working to mend fences. In a Reddit AMA (“Ask me anything”) question-and-answer session, Microsoft’s David Catuhe, an IE senior program manager, said that the company has already begun efforts […]

Patch Tuesday is proving problematic for Microsoft this month after several Windows users were left seeing blue. The company was forced to pull four updates released on Aug. 12 following reports that they were causing Windows PCs to display the so-called “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), an error screen that can only be dismissed by […]

If Microsoft Research has its way, inexpensive 3D sensing and motion control may be right around the corner. During SIGGRAPH 2014, the computer graphics conference that wrapped up Aug. 14, researchers at the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker and the Italian Institute of Technology showed off a novel, inexpensive way to turn a single consumer-grade camera […]

It’s a tablet, a laptop and now a desktop. Microsoft announced today that the Surface Pro 3 docking station has arrived on store shelves in the United States and Canada. The dock is available at Microsoft stores and select retailers, including Best Buy and Staples, for $199.99. First unveiled alongside the Surface Pro 3 in […]

Microsoft has equipped Bing for extended Q&A sessions. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company has rolled out a new Bing update that encourages users to delve deeper into their queries and topics of interest by asking follow-up questions. The feature expands on last year’s release of natural language support for the search engine. Bing has supported […]

This month’s Patch Tuesday not only addressed 25 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, it added new functionality to Microsoft’s Web browser. In keeping with the company’s ongoing efforts to court Web coders, the updates to Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) include a revamped set of F12 developer tools, announced Sharon Meramore and Charles Morris, Internet Explorer […]

Revisiting themes from the company’s Surface Pro 3 reveal in May, Microsoft is again making Apple’s MacBook Air the target of unflattering comparisons. Since its release in 2008, the ultrathin MacBook Air has become a common sight in workplaces and schools, particularly in tech-savvy areas like San Francisco and Manhattan. It also helped spark the […]

Microsoft and American Family Insurance have announced which firms they are backing as part of a home automation startup accelerator program launched two months ago. During Microsoft’s Global Startup Day event in San Francisco on June 17, the companies unveiled a new Microsoft Ventures Accelerator at the software giant’s Redmond, Wash., campus. One aim of […]