Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft on Nov. 28 unveiled Azure Location Based Services, a set of APIs that allow developers to add location awareness to their cloud applications. Azure Location Based Services marks a major milestone in the both the cloud computing and Internet of Things technology markets, according Sam George, director of Azure IoT at Microsoft. “This is […]

Just in time for the holidays, Chromebook users, regardless of the model they acquired, can now download and run Microsoft Office. Running Office apps on Android smartphones and tablets is no longer a new or novel concept. On Chromebooks, it’s a different story, however. When Google announced in May 2016 that Chromebooks would run Android […]

Microsoft has added dozens of new locations to the Bird’s Eye feature in Bing Maps. Bird’s Eye uses oblique imagery processing technology to provide detail-packed views that can help travelers navigate their surroundings by sight. “Oblique imagery is a great complement to Aerial 2D imagery because it has much more depth and provides a view […]

As organizations quickly learn when they explore their cloud computing options, migrating to the cloud is often easier said than done. Microsoft is smoothing out that process, at least for organizations that have invested in the VMware ecosystem, with a new service called Azure Migrate. Available on Nov. 27, Azure Migrate will help users to […]

Office exploits are hardly new, but there has been a noticeable uptick in attacks in the fall of 2017 that target the popular business productivity software suite from Microsoft. In a Nov. 21 advisory, Microsoft’s Office 365 Threat Research team said that they had observed an escalation in the efforts of attackers to infect systems […]

Box Using Azure, an offering that combines the content management capabilities of the business-friendly Box platform with Microsoft cloud storage, is now available. It’s not the first time Microsoft and Box have teamed up in the cloud collaboration space. In 2016, the two companies unveiled a set of integrations that allow users to save their […]

Windows 10 users with monitors capable of displaying high dynamic range (HDR) content will soon have new settings that improve the quality of non-HDR visuals. New in build number 17040 of the PC operating system, which is available now to members of the Windows Insider preview program, is the ability to adjust the brightness of […]

Microsoft’s customers now have another way to pay for the Azure cloud-computing resources that they expect to consume. The company’s Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Reserved Instances (RIs), which are paid for in advance at a savings compared to on-demand pricing, are now generally available and ready to take on production workloads. “Azure RIs give you […]

Microsoft used its Connect 2017 conference in New York to unveil new Visual Studio tools that help developers harness the growing opportunity from artificial-intelligence-enabled applications. However, intelligent software is nothing without data, not to mention the platforms and services that enterprises use to manage data. As it turns out, many of those data management services […]

Workday wants to make inflexible human resource portals a thing of the past by applying analytics to the wealth of employee data that companies already collect and using it to drive new ways of managing workforces. The Pleasanton, Calif. financial management and human resources (HR) technology firm is baking new intelligent capabilities into the Workday […]

After months of waiting, Microsoft’s cloud customers can finally start evaluating Microsoft’s GDPR compliance management dashboard for a spin. GDPR, or the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, goes into effect on May 25, 2018. As the date approaches, companies that do business in Europe are assessing how well or poorly their IT resources and processes […]

Project Honolulu is Microsoft’s stab at narrowing the gap between the PowerShell command line and graphical user interface (GUI) tools such as Microsoft Management Console.  In September, the company released a technical preview (version 1709) and now Windows Insiders, members of the company’s early-access and feedback program, can be the first to try out the […]