Pedro Hernandez

A new year offers new opportunities for environmentally friendly technologies, and Microsoft is constantly scanning the horizon for ways to advance its efforts to help drive the industry toward a greener path and lessen the impact of its own operations, according to Robert Bernard, chief environmental strategist for Microsoft. Bernard said in a blog post […]

Ford CEO Alan Mulally is no longer a frontrunner in Microsoft’s search for a CEO to replace departing Steve Ballmer. Mulally told the Associated Press in a Jan. 7 interview that he “would like to end the Microsoft speculation.” Shutting down the possibility of heading up the software giant, he added, “I have no other […]

Microsoft is opening a new front in the search engine wars with a Bing-powered Website widget that adds supplemental information to Web content. The new Bing Knowledge widget is based on Bing Snapshots, “modules that intelligently serve up information about key ‘entities’ (like people, places, TV shows),” wrote Microsoft’s Steve Wiens in a blog post […]

Microsoft has acquired Parature, a Herndon, Va.-based customer service software specialist, the software behemoth announced Jan. 6. Sources close to the deal told TechCrunch that the transaction is valued at $100 million. Parature’s cloud-based software platform enables businesses to deliver customer-facing self-service capabilities. Capabilities include social customer support, support ticketing and mobile customer care, among […]

As Microsoft’s CEO search continues into the new year, the company’s past is reportedly causing candidates to keep their distance. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, candidates are wary of the lingering presence of current CEO Steve Ballmer and legendary co-founder (and ex-CEO) Bill Gates on the company’s board after a new […]

Microsoft officially quit the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in 2012. This year, the software giant is back but not to the same degree as in the past. The company still enjoys a strong presence at CES, thanks to its OEM partners. And it’s the efforts of those partners that Microsoft staffers […]

Microsoft is making room for more Linux distros on its virtualization platform with the release of Linux Integration Services 3.5 (LIS 3.5) for Hyper-V. Linux Integration Services is a driver package that provides “synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V,” describes Microsoft in the product download page. Specifically, the software provides driver […]

Like its predecessor, the Surface Pro 2 won over reviewers and power users with its ability to run full-featured Windows software in a sleek tablet form factor. Now, new buyers have a little more reason to make the move to Microsoft’s business-oriented tablet. Microsoft has upgraded the Surface Pro 2’s processor, replacing its Intel Core […]

Windows 8 crossed a big milestone in December 2013 by capturing more than 10 percent of the desktop operating system market. More than a full year since the company launched Windows 8—and several weeks after it released the highly anticipated Windows 8.1 update—Microsoft has finally managed to push the tablet-friendly OS into double-digit territory, according […]

Microsoft may have scored another major smartphone partner, Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony. According a report in The Information, Sony may be gearing up to offer a Windows Phone this year. Amir Efrati wrote on Dec. 31 that the company “whose mobile unit has exclusively made smartphones powered by Google’s Android software for nearly four […]