Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on July 11 that the company he helms is undergoing a profound transformation to meet the challenges posed by the post-PC era. The restructuring efforts will enable the company “to innovate with greater speed, efficiency and capability in a fast changing world,” he said in an internal email to employees. […]

NEW YORK—Following its shift to contract-free cellular plans in March, T-Mobile announced during a press event here its latest efforts to further the company’s “un-carrier” approach to wireless communications. On March 25, the company unveiled a contract-free smartphone plan with unlimited talking, texting and 500MB of 4G data (subject to slowdowns after that limit is […]

Microsoft Office is on a roll, said Julia White, general manager for the software giant’s productivity technology unit. And to keep the momentum going, the company is banking on a growing Office apps ecosystem and new business intelligence capabilities, she told eWEEK. Using the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston (WPC 2013) as a backdrop, […]

Microsoft is shuttering its MSN TV service, formerly WebTV, on Sept. 30, 2013, the company announced on its Website and in an email to current customers. Microsoft acquired WebTV Networks in 1997 for $425 million. Long before smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, WebTV set-top boxes offered consumers a comparatively low-cost alternative to PCs, enabling them […]

Microsoft kicked off July with a preview of what the company has in store for the small-business version of Windows Server 2012. The company announced on July 1 the launch of the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview. While working on the update, one of Microsoft’s goals was to ease the path to virtualization for […]

Microsoft announced July 2 that the newest edition of its customer relationship management (CRM) software, Dynamics CRM 2013, along with its cloud-based counterpart, Dynamics CRM Online Fall ’13, will bow in the fall. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 will allow businesses to better engage with today’s smarter, hyper-connected consumers, says Microsoft Dynamics CRM Vice President Bob […]

In a bet that enterprises will snap up Surface slates with strong channel support, Microsoft is launching a business channel expansion aimed at luring corporate IT departments. The company today announced the new Microsoft Devices Program, a move that could potentially help boost enterprise adoption of the software giant’s in-house line of Windows 8 and […]

In the wake of the PRISM scandal, Microsoft is taking a page from Google’s playbook and requesting permission from the U.S. government to release more details about government requests for customer data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). On June 14, John Frank, vice president and Deputy General Counsel for Microsoft, announced that during […]

Not content to let Windows 8 serve as both a mobile and desktop operating system, Microsoft is banking that its flagship software platform will help advance a burgeoning and rapidly evolving field of 3D printing. 3D printing support will be among the many tweaks, enhancements and added functionality that the Windows 8.1 update will contain […]

Starting today, the general public can finally get some hands-on time with Windows 8.1, the first big update for its latest edition of Microsoft’s flagship operating system. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage for the keynote during the Build developer conference on June 26 and encouraged everyone in attendance and viewing the Webcast […]

Yammer is good business for Microsoft, and the software giant is showing no signs of resting on its laurels. On the one-year anniversary of the blockbuster Yammer acquisition announcement, Microsoft offered a peek at what the next six to eight months have in store for the enterprise social network. But first, the company took a […]

Microsoft is spending nearly $700 million on “Project Mountain,” a data center in West Des Moines, Iowa, that will aid in the company’s cloud expansion. The news emerged after Iowa’s Economic Development Authority Board approved $20 million in tax credits for Project Mountain, according to a June 21 report by the Des Moines Register’s Donnelle […]