Pedro Hernandez

Customers hoping to spin up a piece of Microsoft’s cloud in their own data centers will have a little longer to wait, the company announced on July 12. After releasing the Azure Stack Technical Preview software on Jan. 29, Mike Neil, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud division, said his company gathered feedback. In […]

Last year, Microsoft caused a stir after the company announced that both Dell and HP would sell its Surface Pro Windows tablets to their respective corporate customers. It should be noted that both Dell and HP offer Windows tablets and two-in-one devices that compete with the Surface lineup. Today, Microsoft has recruited another major partner […]

The countdown has begun. On July 12, Day 2 of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, the company announced that it is planning to officially launch Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 during another conference. The server operating system and IT management software suite will be made generally available at Microsoft’s upcoming Ignite conference, […]

Microsoft has enlisted a major new partner in its quest to become a premier provider of cloud-based Internet of things (IoT) software and services. On July 11, during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference taking place in Toronto, Microsoft and GE announced that GE will bring its Predix platform to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. Unveiled […]

Developers can now target group conversations, link with Facebook and generally do more with their Skype bots, courtesy of an update to the Microsoft Bot Framework. Microsoft Bot Framework, announced at the software giant’s Build 2016 developer conference earlier this year, includes a Bot Builder SDK (software development kit) and the Bot Framework Developer Portal, […]

Another week, another Windows 10 Anniversary Update build. On July 7, Microsoft released build 14383 of both the PC and mobile versions of the system software to Windows Insiders in the fast ring of the early-access program. Once installed, eagle-eyed users may come to realize that one of the telltale visual signs of running prerelease […]

Microsoft this week learned about the dangers of trying to fit in with the cool kids and letting slip official emails that don’t quite match its corporate identity. The company’s latest gaffe, made by a job recruiter representing Microsoft, went viral after blatantly attempting to hook millennials with slang that missed its mark. It all […]

Dynamics, Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) product line, is getting a major new addition, the company announced July 6. Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise, took the wraps off Dynamics 365, a new cloud-based software platform that is meant to help customers piece together integrated business […]

Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, is leaving the company to serve as CEO of Citadel Securities, a Chicago-based investment company, the Redmond, Wash., software maker announced July 7. Turner spent 11 years as Microsoft’s COO and had previously served as Wal-Mart’s CIO and the CEO of Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart’s warehouse store division. He will […]

Last month, Microsoft once again reminded the IT community about the importance of testing Windows operating system patches before deploying them to their entire fleet of user systems. June’s patches for various Windows operating systems, including Windows Vista, Windows 10 and Server 2008, contained security updates that changed how user Group Policy Objects (GPO) work […]