Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is taking a little detour from Windows before students head back to class and workers return from their summer vacations. Microsoft has turned its attention to Apple users with updates to the company’s note-taking app, OneNote. Available now, the new versions of Microsoft OneNote for Mac, iPad and iPhone offer expanded cloud storage, file […]

Microsoft is once again the target of an antitrust investigation, this time in China. The company’s offices in four Chinese cities were raided as part of a probe by the country’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) on July 28. Anti-monopoly investigators seized computers and documents, contracts, financial statements, emails and files, according to […]

Microsoft and Akamai, the content delivery network (CDN) provider, announced that they are partnering to help early-stage IT security startups in Israel bring their innovations to market by kicking off the country’s first security accelerator. Also lending a hand is Jerusalem Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. The security-focused program is based in the Microsoft […]

Microsoft is hoping to spur innovation at the company by hosting a two-day hackathon on July 29 to 30. The hackathon is part of “Oneweek,” which Microsoft described in a corporate blog post as “CEO Satya Nadella’s effort to reinvent the way the company does business and to encourage the rise of brilliant ideas no […]

Microsoft has tweaked its Google Maps competitor, making it harder for users to get lost. Bing Maps has been updated to include new “rendering and styling improvements” for its Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) services. The enhancements not only make the maps look better, they help users navigate their surroundings […]

Microsoft announced on July 11 that it had acquired cloud data protection specialist InMage for an unspecified amount. “Microsoft is now working to integrate the InMage Scout technology into Azure Site Recovery service, in order to give customers a simple, cost-effective way to ensure business continuity with the power and scale of the Azure global […]

Why pay extra for an in-memory performance boost? That’s the question posed by Microsoft as the company announced the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 6.0 for Oracle. The free tool enables organizations to migrate existing Oracle databases to SQL Server 2014, letting customers leverage “proven in-memory technology without costly add-ons” for responsive applications […]

IBM and Google aren’t the only tech giants that have set their sights on quantum computing. Redmond, Wash-based Microsoft is also researching the potentially game-changing field. Microsoft is peeling the curtain back a bit on Station Q, a decade-old quantum computing lab situated on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus. The lab exists to […]

A month after Microsoft released its “remastered” Skype 5.0 app for the iPhone, the company has turned its attention to Android smartphones. The new version blurs the line between an Android device’s native contact list and Skype’s own friends list, announced Skype senior product marketing manager, Pierre-Eric Jacoupy, in a company blog post. “Starting with […]

Microsoft may be taking a step back from content streaming after announcing that it is shutting down Xbox Entertainment Studios. Its partners are picking up the slack, however. Nearly a month after making its debut on Wall Street, San Mateo, Calif.-based GoPro announced the availability of its namesake app for the Xbox One. Dubbed the […]