Pedro Hernandez

OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) isn’t the only Microsoft product to undergo a brand adjustment this week. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech titan has also changed the name of its Office Web Apps to Office Online and issued some updates to help commemorate the occasion. Hints of the free Office Online offering surfaced earlier this month when Microsoft […]

Microsoft isn’t slowing down after last week’s enhancements to its cloud-based Exchange Online Protection product. This week, the company is tackling Yammer log-ins, strengthening email security and setting the stage for e-signature support from DocuSign. In a Feb. 17 blog post, Christophe Fiessinger, senior product manager on the company’s enterprise social team, said that Microsoft’s […]

Microsoft today officially launched OneDrive, the successor to the company’s SkyDrive cloud storage service. The software giant retired the brand after the British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) won a trademark case in the United Kingdom last summer. Chris Jones, corporate vice president of Windows Services, announced the switch in a Feb. 19 blog post. “Today […]

Following the “highly transformative release” of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 last fall, Bill Patterson, senior director of Dynamics CRM, said his company is keeping the momentum going with some major new enhancements this year. Microsoft today unveiled Dynamics Marketing, a cloud-based multichannel marketing component for the company’s customer relationship management (CRM) platform based on its […]

Microsoft is planning to release a native Lync app for Android tablets this summer, announced Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president for Lync & Skype Engineering at Microsoft. The company is showing off an early version of the software during the Lync Conference in Las Vegas Feb. 18 to 20. The upcoming release exemplifies Microsoft’s […]

Microsoft has sold more than 200 million licenses of its Windows 8 operating system since its launch in October 2012, announced Tami Reller, the software company’s executive vice president of marketing. The figure does not include enterprise volume licenses. Nor does it parallel the sales trajectory of Windows 8’s popular predecessor, Windows 7. The Next […]

Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft’s cloud-based malware-busting, anti-spam email protection offering, has new tools that help organizations safeguard their users’ inboxes, announced Microsoft Product Manager Shobhit Sahay. The new enhancements include junk mail reporting for Outlook Web App (OWA). “OWA Junk mail reporting will now allow OWA users to move missed spam in the inbox or […]

Amid mounting controversy, Microsoft is denying allegations that its Bing search engine is filtering Chinese language results for users based in the United States. “There has been discussion over the past day or so that Bing results for Chinese language queries done outside of China are somehow intentionally edited or incomplete for political censoring purposes,” […]

Microsoft has quietly released details on license-included Oracle VMs for Windows Azure, months after the companies announced a strategic partnership that brings Oracle’s enterprise software to Microsoft’s cloud. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s former cloud chief and now the software giant’s new CEO, announced the team-up, which brought the big competitors together, last summer. “As part of […]

Given the likelihood that Office 365 accounts are bound to contain sensitive corporate information, Microsoft is looking to avoid the high-profile security breaches that have plagued other cloud services. To that end, the software giant announced that it has extended multifactor authentication to the Office 365 user base at large. The security measure is no […]