Pedro Hernandez

Azure Government, Microsoft’s portfolio of secure cloud services for municipal, state and federal government agencies, may soon be entrusted with some of the United States’ secret information. Tom Keane, head of Global Infrastructure at Microsoft Azure unveiled on Oct. 17 a new cloud service offering called Azure Government Secret. The service is aimed at “government […]

As promised on Sept. 1 at the IFA 2017 consumer electronics trade show, Microsoft officially released the final version of its Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on Oct. 17. “Today, we deliver the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update offering breakthroughs in creativity—from bringing mixed reality and 3D to the masses, to faster broadcasting for gaming, […]

Coinciding with the official release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on Oct. 17, Microsoft unveiled the Surface Book 2, now with a 15-inch model. Microsoft made waves in October 2015 when it took the wraps off its first-ever laptop, the original Surface Book. The Windows 2-in-1 hybrid device featured a detachable screen, a […]

Microsoft is making it easier for IT executives and professionals to keep track of how cloud computing portfolios of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure compare with its new Cloud Services Map. Both cloud giants have seen their respective services catalogs grow by leaps and bounds over the past several years, making it tough for […]

As predicted, Microsoft’s high-profile email privacy case has attracted the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention. Over a year ago, on July 14, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed an earlier decision requiring Microsoft to turn over to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) emails that are stored in an Irish data […]

Cortana has learned a new skill that will someday help Windows 10 users organize the interesting content that they encounter on the web. Cortana Collections, part of Windows 10 Insider preview build 17017, is a new feature that pops up when users are researching products or events online. It appears as a system notification when […]

Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS), two major rivals duking it out in the expanding market for cloud computing solutions, have found common ground on building deep learning software. On Oct. 12, the two technology giants unveiled Gluon, a new open source, deep learning tool that developers can use to build machine learning models with […]

Microsoft Ventures, the software giant’s venture fund for early-stage startups, is looking for four artificial intelligence (AI) startups across North America, Europe and Israel to share a total of $3.5 million in funding. To find them, the company is running a competition called Innovate.AI. “Through this global competition, we are asking startups creating or leveraging […]

At the SpiceWorld conference here in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks’ annual gathering of IT professionals, Microsoft technical fellow Jeffrey Snover a spent a couple sessions instructing attendees on how to get the most out of PowerShell and tell them about the tool future. Snover is the inventor of PowerShell and serves as chief architect for the […]

Accessing one’s calendar in the Outlook apps for iOS and Android is easy enough, but some features like the ability to manage and sync shared calendars are best left to the desktop client or browser-based application. That is, until now. Microsoft has added the ability to view and edit shared calendars in its Outlook mobile […]

Cortana is now a Skype contact, enabling users to chat with Microsoft’s virtual assistant technology as they would their friends, family and colleagues. Microsoft is currently rolling out a new Cortana in Skype feature for the iOS and Android versions of the application. Among the new functionality is the ability to have a chat with […]

AI for Earth, a program that offers access to Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and cloud resources to researchers and organizations that are addressing environmental challenges, is now turning its attention to the world’s oceans. When AI for Earth was first announced in July, its focus was on agriculture, biodiversity, climate change and water scarcity. […]