Pedro Hernandez

Apart from the Bash Unix shell and other highly anticipated features, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is set to bring an entirely new SKU for schools to the Windows 10 family. On July 27, Microsoft announced Windows 10 Education Pro based on the upcoming Anniversary Update, or Windows 10 version 1607. But at least one […]

The Outlook apps for iOS and Android, which are based on Microsoft’s acquisition of Acompli in late 2014, have one feature that its desktop and web-based counterparts don’t: Focused Inbox. The feature intelligently surfaces emails from customers, colleagues and other important contacts by displaying them in the default Focused tab. Newsletters, personal emails and other […]

SharePoint users will soon have a new way of managing their lists, which considering the tool’s popularity, may affect how many organizations collaborate on shared content. According to Microsoft’s Chris McNulty, a senior product manager for the SharePoint group, more than 10 million SharePoint lists are in use across the company’s cloud-enabled Office 365 productivity […]

Microsoft is consolidating its multi-factor authentication apps, offering both consumers and business users a unified, password-enhancing experience. Multi-factor authentication, whether delivered via a mobile app, a text messaging service, dedicated dongle or other solution, helps protect organizations and users from easily hacked passwords and credentials that were gleaned from breaches, phishing emails and other attempts […]

Tomorrow’s students may never know the trials and tribulations of properly citing sources and formatting a bibliography for a research or term paper. On July 26, Microsoft announced a handful of cloud-enabled “intelligent services” that help point Office 365 users in the right direction while they are creating written content in Word or crafting PowerPoint […]

OneDrive is rolling out new photo management features across the cloud-based file sync and sharing service’s mobile apps and Web experience. Among them are new automatic albums that organize photos without user intervention. “OneDrive detects whenever you take a few photos in a short period of time, in a particular location. The highest quality photos […]

Microsoft quietly released a preview version of its new Upgrade Analytics service on July 22, a new Operations Management Suite (OMS) tool that uses telemetry data gathered by an organization’s Windows systems to help IT managers determine whether their applications and drivers are ready for the move to Windows 10. OMS is Microsoft’s cloud-based IT […]

Microsoft released a new update for the iOS version of Skype (6.20) to the Apple App Store this week that enables iPhone and iPad users to find and organize bots similar to the way they already manage their flesh-and-blood contacts. Skype bots made their official debut at this spring’s Build developer conference in San Francisco. […]

A new update for OneNote, Microsoft’s notetaking app, finally brings ink support to the Mac version of the software. While Apple staunchly refuses to offer its Mac hardware with built-in touchscreens and stylus functionality, users can still scribble in their OneNote notebooks using variety of peripherals. Owners of the super-sized iPad Pro tablet and Apple […]

Microsoft wants to put an end to the missed calls, endless email chains, after-hours voice mails and other hassles that come with trying to book appointments. The software maker this week unveiled a new service for Office 365 that allows salons and other appointment-based small businesses to extend online, self-service scheduling to their clients that […]