Pedro Hernandez

Windows Insiders who take the latest test build of Windows 10 Mobile for a spin can now view EPUB-formatted ebooks on their phones’ Edge browser. This week, Microsoft released Windows 10 build 14977 to the early access program, but exclusively for the mobile version of the operating system. In a Dec. 1 announcement, Dona Sarkar, […]

SAP has added new capabilities to its SuccessFactors Succession and Development product, offering customers an automated and more modern approach to running corporate mentorship programs. Today, most coaching programs require an extensive amount of administrative work from human resources (HR) professionals. In addition to the sheer number of manual tasks required to keep them going, […]

After its release for general use this past summer, Microsoft has slapped the Current Branch for Business label on the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. The Current Branch for Business designation is awarded about four months after the Current Branch of Windows is publicly released. Windows 10 Anniversary Update, or build Windows 10 version 1607, was […]

If enterprises aren’t already drowning in data, they soon will be. That’s the message Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, had for attendees of the Redmond, Wash. technology giant’s annual shareholder meeting on Nov. 30. Society will produce 180 zettabytes of data by 2025, he said. A single zettabyte is equivalent to a billion terabytes or […]

Outdated career sites from the desktop-PC era not only make a poor first impression on job seekers, it can scare off qualified candidates. To help customers of its cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform put their best foot forward, SAP launched new Career Site Builder tools for SuccessFactors Recruiting. The tool set is aimed at […]

Copy-paste is a time-honored way of transferring information between apps. Unfortunately, it’s easier said than done on many Android apps. Microsoft has released a new Android app called Clip Layer that enables users to copy and share content from practically any app. Clip Layer aims to solve some of the common problems faced by smartphone […]

In terms of delivering public cloud services, an Azure customer recently taught Microsoft a lesson in running a tight ship. Ian Duffy, a software engineer at online retailer Zalando, had set out to create a secure, custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) machine image that could run on both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft […]

Microsoft may be following BlackBerry into smartphone obscurity, but the Redmond, Wash., software giant refuses to give up. Windows clings to a scant 0.4 percent of the smartphone operating system (OS) market, according to Gartner’s latest analysis. Microsoft’s mobile OS ran on fewer than 1.5 million of the total 373 million smartphones sold worldwide in […]

Customers of Microsoft’s cloud-based disaster recovery offering can now recover Windows Server 2016 workloads to Azure or another data center, the company announced today. “Customers can now use Azure Site Recovery to replicate, protect (or migrate) their Hyper-V virtual machines hosted on a Windows Server 2016 to Azure or to a secondary site,” wrote Microsoft […]

Fresh off a major milestone, Mimecast is ramping up its efforts to protect Office 365 customers from attackers whose weapon of choice is email. The company just celebrated the one-year anniversary of its initial public offering, and mirroring the rise of advanced email threats, business is on a tear. “A couple of things have aligned […]