Pedro Hernandez

Coming off a year-long pilot program, Microsoft and Ford have taken the wraps off a collaboration between the two companies that will help the automaker’s designers get their creations on the road faster by using HoloLens. Microsoft’s HoloLens is a standalone headset with augmented-reality capabilities that works independently of a PC, unlike most of today’s […]

Microsoft has updated its OneNote Class Notebook add-in early into the school year, giving a highly-requested feature to teachers who use iPads. OneNote Class Notebook turns Microsoft’s notetaking app, OneNote, into a collaborative learning environment for their students. Teachers can create interactive lessons, manage course content and distribute assignments, among several other classroom-related tasks. Now, […]

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Microsoft’s cloud-based breach detection and alerting service, will soon be able to respond to malware threats as well. Microsoft announced on Sept. 19 that it had successfully integrated Hexadite’s automated security technology into the product and is working on making it generally available to customers. In June, Microsoft announced […]

Building on the existing report cloning capability in Power BI Embedded, Microsoft has added support for cloned dashboards and dashboard tiles as part of the Power BI developer updates for September. Power BI Embedded allows developers to incorporate the cloud-based data analytics and business intelligence software’s visualizations and reporting capabilities into third-party SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications. […]

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technologies are spreading far and wide across its product portfolio. During the International Broadcasting Convention 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands Sept. 14-19, the software giant showed off an updated version of Video Indexer, an AI-enabled cloud service that allows media companies to extract information from their video content and make it searchable, among […]

Microsoft wants to make the practice of including cloud credentials as part of an application’s code a thing of the past with its new Azure Active Directory (AD) Managed Service Identity (MSI) offering. Applications often need to authenticate to cloud services, but managing and securing those credentials can be challenge while they wend their way […]

Microsoft is making it easier to spot fake news and identify authentic journalism using its Bing search engine. Following in the footsteps of Google, Microsoft is adding a Fact Check label to Bing’s search results, the software maker announced on Sept. 14. “The label may be used on both news articles and web pages that […]

Microsoft is offering some Windows Insiders a peek at what Windows 10 has in store for them after the company releases Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Members of the Windows Insider early-access program who signed up for the Skip Ahead option can gather some early hints at the direction Microsoft is taking for what is […]

Microsoft has updated its Pix photo optimization app for iOS, adding some new deep-learning capabilities that help tidy up mobile snapshots. The Redmond, Wash. software maker released Pix in 2016 as an alternative to the stock iPhone camera app. Pix captures a rapid burst of photos, and using artificial technologies (AI) from Microsoft Research’s Computational […]

Microsoft is getting ready to release a preview of Project Honolulu, a graphical management tool set for the upcoming Windows Server version 1709 release and other editions of the operating system software, the company said on Sept. 14. The preview will officially kick off at the Microsoft Ignite conference which runs from Sept. 25-29 in […]

Microsoft is making it harder for cyber-attackers to steal data from its cloud customers and invade their privacy with a new suite of services and features called Azure Confidential Computing, the company announced on Sept. 14. Four years in development, Azure Confidential Computing addresses a lingering weakness in data processing systems that hackers and malware […]

Bing has not only grown some eyes, it has begun to learn how to use them. Microsoft’s search engine has gained the ability to automatically detect objects within a photo online, the company announced on Sept. 12. The new feature, part of the Bing Visual Search toolset, supplements an existing object recognition tool called Detailed […]