Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft has updated its Office 365 Admin app for Android and Windows Phone, the company announced June 14. Apple iOS users will receive the update within the next two weeks. The focus this time around, according to Anne Michels, senior product marketing manager for Microsoft Office 365 Marketing, was on helping users navigate the app […]

Microsoft dominated technology headlines on June 13 by announcing that it is in the midst of a deal valued at $26.2 billion to acquire LinkedIn, the Mountain View, Calif.-based social network for professionals. In his letter to Microsoft employees, CEO Satya Nadella remarked on the potential synergies between his company’s business and productivity software and […]

Microsoft announced June 13 that is acquiring LinkedIn in an all-cash deal valued at $26.2 billion or $196 per share, the largest deal under Satya Nadella’s watch as CEO of Microsoft. The companies expect the transaction to close before the end of 2016. Based in Mountain View, Calif., LinkedIn employs 9,700 full-time workers worldwide. The […]

Microsoft’s Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) 1.5, announced June 10, features a new method of wrangling the parallel-processing power of multiple graphical processing units (GPUs), such as those from Nvidia, to improve the software’s deep-learning capabilities. Microsoft originally released CNTK in late January on GitHub, the popular online code repository. CNTK is an open-source software toolkit […]

As the historic Dell-EMC deal inches closer to completion, Dell’s parent company Denali Holding Inc. announced the financial results for its fiscal 2017 first quarter ending April 29. Addressing the impending merger, company officials reiterated that the deal, first announced in October 2015, is on track. The multibillion-dollar transaction is awaiting regulatory approval from China […]

Lookout is bringing its threat protection technology to mobile devices managed by Microsoft’s fast-growing Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), the software giant’s mobile device management platform, and the corporate data they access courtesy of a new partnership inked between the two companies. “It’s a culmination of two years of work,” Michael McBride, senior vice president of […]

Microsoft has released a FreeBSD virtual machine (VM) image to the Azure cloud computing marketplace, announced Jason Anderson, a Microsoft Open Source Technology Center principal program manager. FreeBSD is an open-source, Unix-like operating system that has proven popular with major virtual appliance vendors, one of the main reasons Microsoft decided to float is own FreeBSD […]

Members of the Windows Insider early-access program can finally take one of the most highly anticipated features to be included in this summer’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Hyper-V Containers. “You can now use Docker natively on Windows 10 with Hyper-V Containers, to build, ship and run containers utilizing the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 […]

iPhone users can now install Kaizala, a small- and midsize-business (SMB) collaboration app originally released by Microsoft Garage in February. Microsoft Garage is home to several experimental apps, from a productivity-enhancing Android keyboard for Excel users to an iOS and Web app that can identify dog breeds. Available exclusively in India, Kaizala is a free […]

Nearly six months after releasing a preview version of its new Planner project management tool, Microsoft has officially launched the cloud-based software for visual workers. Planner is Microsoft’s answer to Trello, Blossom and other cloud-based team and project management solutions that take a visual approach to prioritizing activities, assigning tasks and collaborating with fellow team […]

Using this week’s Spark Summit in San Francisco as a backdrop, Microsoft announced the general availability of Spark for Azure HDInsight, the company’s cloud-based big data analytics platform. As its name suggests, Apache Spark is taking the big data world by storm with an open-source data processing engine that prioritizes speed and ease of use. […]

Even in augmented reality, there’s no escaping email. Microsoft has released its first “holographic” email and calendar apps for HoloLens, the company’s Windows 10-powered augmented-reality headset. The device, currently available to developers with $3,000 to spare, can run applications that overlay 3D objects on a user’s physical environment. Now, with the new Outlook Mail and […]