Pedro Hernandez

Amazon and Salesforce may be the poster children of the cloud computing era, but Microsoft is quickly catching up. Yesterday, the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker reported fiscal 2014 fourth-quarter revenue of $23.38 billion, just above Wall Street estimates of $23 billion. Profits disappointed at $4.6 billion, or $0.55 per share, below the 60 cents financial […]

Microsoft chalked up $23.38 billion in revenue during its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter, slightly above Wall Street estimates of $23 billion, on strong sales of cloud services and business software. Profits failed to meet analyst expectations, however. The company reported net income of $4.6 billion, or $0.55 per share, for the quarter ended June 30. […]

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute now covers more markets, expanding from just three locations to 10 just two months after the offering was launched on May 12 during the company’s TechEd conference in Houston. Azure ExpressRoute enables businesses to link their on-premise IT infrastructures to Microsoft’s massive cloud data centers. Since they bypass the public Internet, the […]

Xbox One has caught the social media bug. Microsoft revealed that the company is gearing up to release new social features for the company’s Xbox One video game and media streaming console. While the company’s Xbox division has long provided users with community-driven experiences, the company has been particularly bulking up the platform’s social features […]

Days after Microsoft announced that it was kicking off a massive round of layoffs, the company has issued new policies pertaining to contract workers. The changes will limit the time “external staff” in the United States can access Microsoft buildings and internal networks to 18 months before a mandatory six-month break kicks in. In short, […]

Microsoft earlier this year teased that the company’s innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are inching closer toward commercialization. Now, the company is offering a glimpse of that future in the form of Project Adam. Making its debut at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Project Adam is a “deep-learning” system patterned after the human brain’s network […]

In a June 25 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that cell phone searches by police require a warrant. Industry and privacy groups aren’t the only ones pleased with the decision, so are a majority of Americans, according to Microsoft. Eighty-three percent of American voters are siding with the nation’s Chief Justices’ belief that […]

In a year, on July 14, 2015, Windows Server 2003 will meet the same fate that Windows XP met on April 9. On that date, the server operating system will enter its end-of-support phase, spelling the end of security patches and bug fixes, said Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Windows Server and System Center. […]

Microsoft announced July 17 that over the next year, the company plans to eliminate 18,000 jobs, or roughly 14 percent of the estimated 127,000 workers it employs worldwide. The majority of those positions are from the company’s recently acquired Nokia handset business. Stephen Elop, former Nokia CEO and current executive vice president of Microsoft’s Devices […]

Job cuts loom at Microsoft, perhaps as soon as this week and just before the company announces its fiscal 2014 fourth-quarter earnings on July 22. Company insiders revealed in a July 15 Bloomberg report that the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker may soon stage the biggest workforce reduction in its history. Microsoft cut its payroll by […]