Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft today unveiled a new service dubbed Azure Container Instances that speeds the creation and deployment of containers on the company’s cloud. “The very first service of its kind in the cloud, Azure Container Instances (ACI), is a new Azure service delivering containers with great simplicity and speed and without any Virtual Machine infrastructure to […]

HoloLens, Microsoft’s self-contained augmented reality headset, is set to receive an artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade. The Redmond, Wash. technology giant is working on an AI co-processor for the next HoloLens, the company revealed this week. Currently, HoloLens packs a custom chip dubbed the Holographic Processing Unit (HPU), which enables the device to map out a […]

News that Microsoft Paint wasn’t long for this world caused a bit of an uproar online and across social media this week. After it was discovered that the software giant was removing the rudimentary image editor from future versions of Windows, users took to Twitter and other social networks to bemoan Microsoft’s decision to ditch […]

It’s no Photoshop, but many users have come to rely on Microsoft Paint over the decades when they needed to create a basic diagram or quickly resize an image. Soon, the Windows mainstay, along with several other features, will be a thing of the past. Microsoft has published its list of removed and deprecated features […]

As the two-year anniversary of the Windows 10 launch approaches (July 29), new research from Spiceworks indicates that enterprises may have warmed to Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system, but Windows 7 still rules the roost. In its latest survey of desktop operating system penetration rates in business, Spiceworks, the IT management specialist and professional online […]

Microsoft Security Risk Detection, formerly Project Springfield, will be generally available later this summer, the software maker announced. The cloud-based fuzz testing service uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to track down security vulnerabilities and other bugs in their software before they are discovered by attackers out in the wild. Fuzz testing involves subjecting software to […]

In what’s becoming a familiar story out of Redmond, Wash., Microsoft posted upbeat fourth-quarter fiscal 2017 results based on the strength of its growing cloud computing operations. Last quarter, Microsoft generated $24.7 billion in revenue, beating Wall Street analyst estimates of $24.27 billion. Net income was $7.7 billion and earnings per share came in at […]

Version History, a Time Machine-like feature that enables OneDrive users to view and restore older versions of a file, is one of the handier features of Microsoft’s cloud storage service. The downside for many users was that it only worked with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and other Microsoft Office files. This week, Redmond, Wash. software […]

Microsoft has stopped supporting PCs powered by Intel Atom Clover Trail processors, the Redmond, Wash., software giant officially confirmed. In the months following the release of Windows 10 Creators Update, there have been rumblings of incompatible hardware on Microsoft’s support forums and across the web. It’s typically par for the course with practically every major […]

SQL Server 2017 took a major step closer to its official release date this week. After a steady trickle of community technology previews, on July 17 Microsoft announced the general availability of the AI-enabled database software’s first release candidate (RC1). Breaking from tradition, SQL Server 2017 runs on both Windows and Linux. The term “release […]

Hackers can do more than infiltrate networks and steal data. Under the right set of circumstances, they can also cause vital infrastructure, like power grids, to go dark. To help utility companies avoid that fate, Microsoft has launched a new Azure Cyber Analytics Program for electrical grid customers. Under the terms of the offering, dubbed […]

Nested virtualization is now a valid deployment option on Microsoft’s new Dv3 and Ev3 series Azure virtual machines (VMs). Dv3 and Ev3 series VMs use the Hyper-Threading technology found in Intel’s Haswell and Broadwell chip architectures, allowing Microsoft to wring more processing power out of the underlying hardware and support larger VM sizes, according to […]