Pedro Hernandez

After a few years in San Francisco, Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference is moving closer to its Redmond, Wash. headquarters. Chris Capossela, executive vice president and Microsoft’s chief marketing officer, announced this week that Build 2017 will take place in Seattle, Wash. next spring. “Once again, developers can hear from Microsoft engineering leaders and learn […]

Visio diagrams leap from the desktop and land on Apple’s tablet in the company’s new viewer app for iOS. Microsoft has released public previews of its Visio Viewer for iPad (iOS 9.0 and above) and Visio Online, the company announced on Dec. 8. Visio is used by millions of users to visualize everything from simple […]

Microsoft’s earlier attempts at running Windows or a version of the operating system on ARM’s mobile-friendly micro-architecture didn’t go very well. This time Microsoft is changing course. Lending credence to rumors that the company is working on x86-on-ARM64 emulation technology, the company announced during WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Community) 2016 conference in Shenzhen, China that […]

Two days after the transaction was cleared by the European Commission, Microsoft declared it had signed and sealed it’s $26 billion deal to acquire the LinkedIn social network. Microsoft first announced its intent to acquire the professional and career-focused social network nearly six months ago, on June 13. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said that […]

Microsoft expects to close its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn in the coming days after getting the European Commission’s approval for the deal on Dec. 6. “A growing number of Europeans subscribe to professional social networks. These networks are important for professionals to connect and interact and to find new career opportunities,” said Margrethe Vestager, […]

Although aimed at creative professionals and virtual reality (VR) enthusiasts, the upcoming Creators Update for Windows 10 will also contain features for security-conscious IT administrators, Microsoft announced. And not a moment too soon. Windows 10 adoption among enterprise customers is picking up, said Microsoft’s Rob Lefferts, director of program Management at Windows Enterprise and Security. […]

Relationship Insights is now available in preview as part of the December 2016 update to Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s unified customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) cloud service. Ostensibly, the Relationship Insights capability is intended to help “salespeople work more effectively while nurturing and enhancing their business relationships,” the software giant asserts in […]

Microsoft is giving social chatbots another try several months after the company was forced to pull the plug on an earlier effort called Tay. Like Tay, Zo is powered by the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies to deliver conversational experiences. Unlike Tay, Microsoft appears to be taking a more cautious approach to […]

Building an Azure-backed internet of things (IoT) application that uses the popular open-source Apache Kafka stream ingestion technology just got easier. Like RabbitMQ, Kafka is considered an IoT application building block for enterprises. It acts as a queuing system for large IoT deployments, enabling storage and analytics systems to catch up to the high volumes […]

A new year is quickly approaching and Microsoft Research is offering a glimpse at what the tech scene has in store for 2017 along with some hints at the Redmond, Wash., tech giant’s own priorities for the coming year. This year, the company gathered prominent women researchers to share their thoughts on what to expect […]