Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft today announced it had acquired Maluuba, a Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing technology firm. Financial terms were not disclosed. Citing the company’s progress in speech and image recognition, Microsoft is now setting its sights on “literate machines,” according to Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group. […]

Microsoft officially launched a new Office 365 app this week called StaffHub that helps businesses with so-called deskless workers manage schedules on the fly and without having to scramble to update an Excel worksheet or whiteboard when an employee requests a shift change. Not everyone who punches a clock at the start of the workday […]

After months of tinkering, trying to cram data points, charts and other visualizations produced by Power BI into iPhone and Android handset screens, Microsoft has finally announced the general availability of phone-optimized Power BI reports. Enabling users to accesses the company’s cloud-based business intelligence (BI) software and analytics service on the go is a priority […]

During its Citrix Summit conference in Anaheim, Calif., this week, the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provider announced a new product that uses Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform to provide a Windows 10 desktop experience to practically any device, enabling businesses to take an “as-a-service” approach to delivering the operating system to users. Dubbed XenDesktop Essentials, […]

The Windows 10 Creators Update is shaping up to be big upgrade, particularly for creative professionals and virtual reality enthusiasts. Customers concerned about their data privacy may also find reasons to like the update when it arrives this spring, although they’ll have one less setting to setting to choose from while deciding how much diagnostic […]

Microsoft’s move into the team chat collaboration space may have been a wise one, suggests a new study from Spiceworks, an IT management specialist. Spiceworks, which operates an online community of more than six million IT professionals, surveyed its customers about business chat application usage at their organizations. The results from 448 respondents actually bode […]

Microsoft is streamlining the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) management experience for Office 365 customers. The DLP capabilities in Office 365 help businesses keep a lid on sensitive information by controlling how files and content are stored and shared. It automatically classifies data and depending on the policies set by an organization controls the flow of […]

This spring’s Windows 10 Creators Update is coming into sharper focus this week with the release of a new build for Windows Insiders. Members of the early-access and feedback program can now download build 15002 for Windows PCs, announced Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar, a software engineer at the software giant’s Windows and Devices Group and head […]

With the holidays out of the way, Microsoft has returned to releasing Azure cloud updates at a steady clip. Today, the Redmond, Wash. software and cloud services provider announced that the Azure Monitoring Agent, used by the company’s Azure Security Center threat protection offering, can now collect security metadata from Windows Server 2016 virtual machines […]

Dynamic 365 kicks off 2017 with an enhanced search experience that removes a lot of the guesswork in tracking down the right information. Microsoft has upgraded the Dynamics 365 portal, a homepage that greets users of the company’s modular, cloud-enabled customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) business application platform. Now, users can […]

Ultra Slim Virtual Reality-Ready Window 10 PCs Abound at CES 2017 PC makers came to the Consumer Electronics Show with virtual reality-ready Windows PC models that are thinner than ever and deliver more than 15 hours of battery life. Lenovo Goes Beyond Basic Black Lenovo’s ThinkPad is the quintessential business PC. Cloaked in black and […]

In the near future, Cortana may remind drivers of an upcoming appointment, complete with GPS-aided directions on how to get there. That’s one of many scenarios Microsoft wants to enable for cars that support the Redmond, Wash. company’s newly-announced Connected Vehicle Platform. Unveiled Jan. 5 during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the […]