Pedro Hernandez

Google has blocked Microsoft’s YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, and Microsoft is once again crying foul. This is the second time the app has come under fire, but now the companies are clashing over making the app HTML5-compliant. “Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has […]

The first major update to Microsoft’s flagship Windows 8 operating system will be officially released Oct. 17, the company announced. Dubbed Windows 8.1, the free update will arrive “just before Windows 8 celebrates its 1-year anniversary,” noted Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc in an Aug 14 blog post. LeBlanc revealed that “starting at 12 a.m. on […]

Microsoft is the target of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of investors alleging that the software titan issued “materially false and misleading financial statements” at the close of its fiscal 2013 third quarter in violation of generally accepted accounting principles and Securities and Exchange Commission rules. At the center of the allegation is Microsoft’s slow-selling […]

As launch day approaches, Microsoft is softening its stance on the Xbox One’s most controversial requirement. The second-generation Kinect sensor, which will ship with each Xbox One unit, will not have to be plugged in for the console to function. Currently, the Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 is sold as an optional add-on component […]

How many minutes do users spend on Skype each day? How much revenue does Office 365 generate for Microsoft? The software giant, which is fashioning itself into a “devices and services” company, is opening up on its impact on the IT market, along with other company facts and figures with a newly launched Website called […]

Slow sales have failed to sink Microsoft’s Surface RT. Microsoft and chip maker Nvidia are working on a follow-up to the Surface RT tablet, a flop that took a bite out of the software giant’s latest earnings. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia provides the ARM-based chips used in the first Surface RT, which was released during […]

Once limited to some select Microsoft retail locations on the West Coast, the “MakerBot Experience” is going nationwide, announced the mammoth software company and Brooklyn-based 3D printer maker MakerBot. Throughout the summer, Microsoft and MakerBot are installing Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printers at an additional 15 Microsoft Stores across the U.S., allowing more visitors to […]

Microsoft is flattening the mobile app development learning curve with a new tool that enables even non-coders to create Windows Phone apps. Dubbed Windows Phone App Studio, and currently in beta, the Web-based tool is meant to help both developers in training and code gurus fast-track their app creation efforts on Microsoft’s smartphone operating system. […]

Search on Windows Phone 8 is set to become more streamlined and deliver smarter, faster results in a sense catching up to Bing apps for Apple iOS and Google Android. In the coming weeks, Microsoft is pushing an automatic update for Windows Phone 8 users in the United States that promises to deliver better results […]

The Start button’s reappearance and boot-to-desktop options aren’t the only features in Windows 8.1 that Microsoft is using to lure in business users. On the heels of the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview, Microsoft is touting some of the security-enhancing software components that the company is baking into the upcoming Windows 8.1 update. Now, the Redmond, […]

Microsoft is narrowing the performance gap between its Xbox One console and Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 4. While the game systems, both set to launch this fall, are architecturally similar—both sport AMD “Jaguar” architectures—Sony claims a slight advantage in hardware specifications, and thus performance. In a an interview with Microsoft’s Xbox Live director of programming, Larry […]

SkyDrive, Microsoft’s popular cloud file storage service, will undergo a name change following the software giant’s defeat in a trademark case brought by the British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB). BSkyB launched legal proceedings against Microsoft in the United Kingdom, asserting that Redmond’s SkyDrive brand infringed on its Sky trademarks. On June 28, Justice Sarah Asplin […]