Pedro Hernandez

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 […]

Microsoft Translator is available on Amazon Fire, the online retailer’s line of Android-based tablets. Users can download the software onto their devices using the dedicated Amazon Underground app store. It’s not the first time Microsoft is providing translation services to the Amazon device ecosystem. “Microsoft Translator has been available for translating passages of Kindle eBooks […]

Bing users who are about to venture to Websites that pose a risk to their security are already familiar with the generic malware warning that Microsoft shows them in the hopes that they turn back or at least proceed with caution. On June 3, Microsoft announced that its search engine now provides more informative notifications, […]