Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is in the midst of rolling out a new feature, called document conversations, that enables Yammer users to collaborate on Office files in real-time. Document conversations is one of several capabilities that the company is implementing to align Office 365 and Yammer, according to Christophe Fiessinger, a group product manager on Microsoft’s enterprise social […]

Businesses may be eyeing the cloud to maximize their IT budgets and provide their users with bleeding-edge capabilities, but they might not be prepared for the aftermath. GSX Solutions, a Geneva-based provider of monitoring and reporting solutions for enterprise messaging and collaboration platforms, is offering companies that are mulling a switch to the Office 365 […]

While a year may have passed since Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, shed light on the U.S. government’s sweeping cyber-spying capabilities, the effects of those disclosures are still rippling across the IT industry. Microsoft’s Brad Smith, general counsel and executive vice president of Legal and Corporate Affairs, authored a June 4 […]

TV and tweets go together, according to Microsoft and Twitter. Later this year, Microsoft and Twitter will bake the microblogging service into the TV channel listings displayed by the Xbox One. “Twitter will be directly integrated into Xbox One’s TV experience in the U.S.,” announced Microsoft in a blog post. Users won’t have to reach […]

The Computex trade show in Taiwan draws a massive crowd, and Microsoft is working with OEM partners to showcase the scope and variety of the Windows device ecosystem. Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Original Equipment Manufacturer Division, said in a June 4 blog post that his company’s partners are helping it “deliver a […]

Microsoft Azure HDInsight has gained support for Hadoop 2.4, the latest edition of the popular open source big data framework. Microsoft announced the new update during the Hadoop Summit, currently taking place in San Jose, Calif. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker first released HDInsight in March 2013 as a public preview, allowing Azure customers to […]

Microsoft is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Bing’s official launch on June 3. To commemorate the occasion, the company is taking a look back at how a rapidly changing technology landscape influenced the company’s approach to search. Bing.com has been altered to spotlight the search engine’s hallmark feature: the image-based backdrop. Visitors can cycle through […]

In the year since ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed the U.S. government’s alleged cyber-spying capabilities, IT companies have been battling the perception that data residing on their clouds is easy pickings for anyone with the right credentials. That’s not the case with Office 365, according to Microsoft. Office 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-enabled version […]

E3 2014, short for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, takes place next week from June 10 to 12. While it is closed to the general public, Jeff Rubenstein, Microsoft’s senior Xbox evangelist, wrote in a blog post, , that the company “put together a number of great events taking place throughout the week of E3, […]

Microsoft on June 2 announced the availability of its Dynamics CRM Spring Update, shortly after the company announced a strategic partnership with Salesforce, the upstart cloud-based CRM specialist and former rival. The release is a big milestone in his company’s now-familiar cloud-first strategy, according to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. In a statement, he described […]