Pedro Hernandez

Evernote Embraces MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar for Faster Note Taking Evernote has learned a new trick. Mac users who have invested in a newer Apple MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar now can access many of the note-taking app’s functions without digging through menus. For Evernote, the Touch Bar helps bridge the gap between its […]

Microsoft today announced the general availability of its Azure Active Directory (AD) B2B Collaboration feature set. As its name suggests, the toolkit, also part of the company’s Enterprise Mobility + Security offering, enables business-to-business collaboration while enhancing security and preventing leaks of sensitive data. Azure AD B2B Collaboration enables customers to extend the platform’s secure […]

As promised, Microsoft released a patch today that fixes a zero-day vulnerability in Office that cyber-attackers were already exploiting. Word of the vulnerability spread just prior to the weekend when McAfee security researchers published an advisory on the cyber-security company’s blog. The vulnerability was traced to the Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) component present […]

Today’s the day that Microsoft begins the worldwide rollout of the Windows 10 Creators Update. However, as with most noncritical software updates, the software giant is releasing the update in stages, meaning users may have to wait up to several weeks for it to appear in Windows Update. There is a shortcut: Microsoft’s Update Assistant […]

Microsoft has released 90-day evaluation versions of the Windows 10 Creators Update for Enterprise edition of the operating system. IT professionals can download the updates on the company’s TechNet Evaluation Center. Although Windows 10 Creators Update will start rolling out via Windows Update on April 11 to the general public, enterprises generally don’t like rushing […]

Microsoft gave its cloud-based application container portfolio a significant boost today by acquiring Deis, a San Francisco-based software startup specializing in Kubernetes, the open-source container management and orchestration system. Financial terms were not disclosed. Deis is known for a number of open-source projects, including the Helm package manager for Kubernetes, which enables users to install […]

Microsoft wants Skype to be the world’s interpreter. The company announced this week that Skype Translator, the real-time speech translation service included with the popular communications software, hit a significant milestone. Microsoft has added Japanese to the mix, bringing the total number of supported languages to 10. This enables automatic translation services for Japanese speakers […]

Microsoft today joined its rivals in offering customers a cloud-based container registry for their Docker container images. Azure Container Registry is now generally available, the company announced today. The service, available in preview since November 2016, serves as a cloud-based repository that enables customers to store and manage private Docker container images. “Azure Container Registry […]

The April 2017 update for Microsoft Power BI Desktop, the client software used to publish reports based on the cloud-based business intelligence (BI) service, now features a new data connectivity option that encourages work team collaboration. The new connector, dubbed Power BI Service Live Connection, is currently in preview and can be used to focus […]

Readying developers for some of the user experience improvements that have been added to the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft has officially released .NET Framework 4.7. The framework is included in the operating system software update. Although users will have to wait until April 11 for Microsoft to start distributing Windows 10 Creators Update via […]

Two security-enhancing products for Office 365 environments, Threat Intelligence and Advanced Data Governance, are generally available Microsoft announced on April 4. The Data security in general is a natural priority for enterprises. But considering the wealth of sensitive and potentially valuable information contained in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Access databases, Microsoft decided to focus […]

Microsoft promises to give users more control over their personal data and visibility into how it’s used when the Windows 10 Creators Update arrives on April 11. However, eager Windows 10 users can manually initiate the installation starting today if they don’t wish to wait for the automatic Windows Update. In light of recent controversies […]