Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft’s $26 billion bid to acquire LinkedIn is taking a big step closer toward becoming a done deal. The European Union’s (EU) antitrust authority is set to give the merger its approval when it decides on the matter on Dec. 6, Reuters reported today, citing information from unnamed insiders. EU regulators had originally set a […]

Microsoft has started its Black Friday sale a little early this year, but buyers hoping to save some cash on the company’s newly announced Surface Studio are out of luck. Surface Studio, the company’s first all-in-one PC designed for designers, digital artists and other creative professionals, is only available for preorder at its full price. […]

SAP’s cloud-based human capital management scored a major new customer recently. Last week, German business software giant announced that Microsoft had selected its SuccessFactors HCM Suite to help manage the latter’s workforce. Microsoft will use the SuccessFactors HCM Suite to provide human resources (HR) services and improve employee engagement among its 114,000 full-time employees. eWEEK […]

Office Online Server, a version of the browser-based Office Online application suite that businesses can host out of their own data centers, is getting its first major update since Microsoft released the server edition six months ago. Office Online Server essentially allows organizations to grant their users access to web-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel […]

Microsoft is on a mission to build a quantum computer, and the company has appointed Todd Holmdahl to manage the project. Holmdahl is the corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum, a unit dedicated to turning the company’s quantum computing research into real-world products. He previously helped shepherd the development of the Xbox, Kinect motion controller […]

It may easier than ever to subscribe to Azure cloud services, but configuring them to run applications is hardly a set-and-forget affair. To help customers avoid stumbling blocks and avert data security mishaps, Microsoft has released a preview of its new Azure Advisor feature, “a personalized recommendation engine” of sorts. It helps take the guesswork […]

Microsoft’s new Surface Studio all-in-one desktop PC may have stolen the show at last month’s Windows 10 event in New York City, but the company also had some compelling offerings for users who may not be in the market for new hardware. During the event, the Redmond, Wash. software giant announced its upcoming Windows 10 […]

Microsoft’s ‘Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform’ strategy got a couple of major shots in the arm this week. Yesterday, during the company’s Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City, after several overtures to the open-source software community, the Redmond, Wash. software maker finally buried the hatchet and announced it had joined the Linux […]

Microsoft and the open source community once staunchly occupied opposite sides of the IT spectrum. Recently, though, both are enjoying a cozy overlap. This week during its Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City, Microsoft announced it had joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member. Not stopping there, the company revealed that both […]

It’s no secret that Microsoft is banking on artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver next-generation IT services to its corporate customers as they embark on their digital transformation journey. This week during the SC16 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, the company joined computer graphics hardware maker Nvidia to announce they would collaborate to bring AI-enabled […]