Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft kicked off its Ignite 2016 conference in Atlanta today, and much like last year’s event, enabling businesses to make a digital transformation emerged as a major theme. One way the Redmond, Wash., software giant believes it can help organizations along their digital transformation journey is with the latest release of its cloud-friendly server system […]

Project Bletchley, the Ethereum-based consortium blockchain technology that Microsoft announced back in June, is now available, the company said this week. Bletchley v1 slashes the time it takes to deploy a consortium Ethereum network, according to Marley Gray, principal program manager at Microsoft Azure Blockchain Engineering. “It reduces the estimated three-week process of setting up […]

Despite a recent firmware update from Microsoft, battery problems continue to plague some Surface Pro 3 devices. For months, owners have been flooding Microsoft’s online support forums with complaints about the tablet’s poor battery performance. Instead of lasting several hours between charges—up to 9 hours if used primarily for web browsing—some users could barely make […]

Why Charge 2 Will Help Fitbit Keep Title as Top Wearables Maker Wearables leader Fitbit is looking to keep its top position in the market with its new Charge 2, which boasts a larger, brighter screen and more features than its predecessor. More to See First things first, the Charge 2 boasts a bigger, brighter […]

Microsoft Cloud Germany is open and ready for business, operating under a “data trustee” model that addresses the data privacy and sovereignty concerns of the region’s companies. Last November, Microsoft announced a novel way of delivering cloud services to German businesses while adhering to the country’s strict regulations concerning user data. CEO Satya Nadella pledged […]

There’s a new Windows 10 preview build (14931) awaiting Windows Insiders this week, but before trying out its new features, Microsoft is nudging users with old builds to update. Dona Sarkar, a software engineer in Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group and head of the Windows Insider program, announced this week that the clock is ticking […]

Sumo Logic, a Redwood City, Calif., log management and analytics firm, announced Sept. 21 that it has joined the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, releasing two new certified products that enable customers to draw efficiency-enhancing, potentially business-boosting insights from their cloud application workloads. Sumo Logic laid claim to an industry first earlier this year when it unveiled […]

The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be nearly 1.7 million new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States and more than 595,000 cancer deaths this year. Microsoft hopes to put a big dent in those numbers by using its research in artificial intelligence (AI) and its massive, globe-spanning Azure cloud to “solve” cancer. […]

Microsoft has released an update for GigJam that helps offline colleagues get caught up on shared tasks when they return to their PCs or sneak a quick peek of their iPhones. The Office 365 task-centric collaboration app, which is currently available in preview on the web and iOS, allows users to create a mini-app experience […]

With one foot in the corporate world and another in the consumer realm, Microsoft has developed a problem. And its enterprise customers, by extension, are feeling the effects. On one side are users that access their consumer services like Xbox Live with their Microsoft Accounts (formerly Live ID). On the other are corporate accounts managed […]