Pedro Hernandez

U.S. shoppers can now grab a Surface Pro 3, but only the Intel Core i5 version. That’s set to change in August. “Those who are interested in the Core i3 and Core i7 versions will remember that when we first announced the product we said these would be shipping ‘in August,’” Panos Panay, head of […]

Microsoft is setting out to erase any lingering doubts about cloud-based disaster recovery with a preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to Azure. Abhishek Hemrajani, a Microsoft program manager, took to the company’s official blog to announce new capabilities that enable disaster recovery (DR) in the cloud. Enterprise and small and midsized businesses (SMBs) “can […]

Microsoft’s new mobile-first, cloud-first strategy hinges largely on delivering products that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving tech marketplace, Office 365 included. By adopting an accelerated software release and update cadence, at least compared with its packaged software past, Microsoft seeks to keep its customers, and itself, closer to the cutting edge of computing […]

Microsoft is taking an unconventional approach to wearable tech compared to its rivals. Google has Google Glass, the company’s app-enabled smart glasses technology. Samsung offers the Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch, which links with the company’s smartphones. Apple, meanwhile, is rumored to be gearing up to for the release of a fitness and health monitoring “iWatch,” […]

Microsoft has released new sample code that enables Salesforce users to message one another to carry on Yammer-based conversations without alt-tabbing. “Yammer has developed a JavaScript SDK which allows you to easily integrate any Yammer feed to Salesforce with very few lines of code,” states a company tutorial that outlines the steps required to embed […]

The writing’s on the wall. Cloud-enabled enterprise mobile management is the future for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) administrators. SCCM is Microsoft’s PC and server management toolkit, which can be extended to cover mobile devices with the company’s cloud-based Windows Intune product. Expect the cloud to figure more heavily in the near future, according to […]

Microsoft wants to play a role in advancing the connected home, and it has teamed with American Family Insurance to bring new innovations to market. The companies announced on June 17 during Microsoft’s Global Startup Day event in San Francisco that they have launched a new Microsoft Ventures Accelerator at the software giant’s Redmond, Wash., […]

Microsoft is giving Bing a big upgrade in 2015, based on a fundamentally different computing foundation compared with commodity servers. Project Catapult, a collaboration between Microsoft Research and Bing, seeks to improve data center performance by up to 95 percent using an alternative to server processors called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The group’s work is […]

Developers can now get their hands on a version of Internet Explorer (IE) that contains upcoming features and expanded Web standards support. Dubbed Internet Explorer Developer Channel, the software is “a fully functioning browser designed to give Web developers and early adopters a sneak peek at the Web platform features we’re working on,” announced Microsoft […]

Next month, Microsoft will kick off a preview of Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML), a new cloud-based service aimed at helping businesses jump-start their predictive analytics initiatives. A Microsoft spokesperson commented in an email to eWEEK that the upcoming offering “will allow developers and data scientists to build advanced analytic cloud services in minutes and […]