Pedro Hernandez

Along with the May 4 release of SharePoint Server 2016, Microsoft announced that both Office Web Apps and OneDrive for Business are taking a cloudier, more collaborative path. SharePoint Server 2016 was the star of the show during The Future of SharePoint event on May 4, and understandably so. The latest version of the cloud-inspired […]

Microsoft announced the general availability of SharePoint Server 2016, the software giant’s enterprise document management and team collaboration platform, during The Future of SharePoint event in San Francisco May 4. The product launch comes less than two months after the software was released to manufacturing. Taking the stage, Seth Patton, general manager of Microsoft SharePoint […]

Last September, Microsoft cut the ribbon on new Azure cloud data centers in India. Weeks later, the Redmond, Wash., software and cloud services provider launched locally delivered Office 365 cloud services in the country, improving application responsiveness and assuaging data residency concerns for Microsoft’s customers there. Now, customers can also subscribe to Dynamics CRM Online, […]

Microsoft has acquired Solair, an Italian provider of Internet of things (IoT) technology services, for an undisclosed amount. Sam George, partner director at Microsoft Azure IoT, said in a May 3 announcement that the “acquisition supports our strategy to deliver the most complete IoT offering for enterprises.” Solair specializes in IoT applications, enabling enterprises to […]

Microsoft has released a smattering of new features for its OneNote app aimed at helping users better organize their notes. In the iOS version of OneNote, iPad users can now group and move objects on the app’s canvas by drawing a virtual lasso around them. The new lasso tool supports text, shapes, images, audio recordings […]

To help manage storage costs, enterprises often turn to storage tiering practices that place older, seldom used data on storage systems and media that are less expensive to operate and maintain. Now Microsoft is offering its Azure Blob Storage customers a similar option for their cloud-based object data, called Cool Blob Storage. “Example use cases […]

Microsoft has finally settled on a release date for SQL Server 2016, the Redmond, Wash., software giant announced May 2. A year after Microsoft released the first public preview of SQL Server 2016, the database software will be generally available Wednesday, June 1—before summer arrives. Customers can select from four editions: Express, Standard, Enterprise and […]

Cortana, Microsoft’s virtual assistant technology included with the Windows 10 operating system, is being reined in, the company announced yesterday. Like Siri on Apple’s iOS devices, users can call on Cortana to search the Web for sport scores, weather forecasts and answers to a variety of questions. As the Windows 10 user base has grown—270 […]

IFTTT is getting some competition from Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant on April 29 announced Microsoft Flow, a workflow automation service aimed at business users. IFTTT, short for “If This Then That,” is a popular Web service that uses configurable templates, or “recipes,” to trigger a series of interactions between other Web and software-as-a-service […]

Microsoft has new updates in store this week for Excel 2016 power users, including performance enhancements and more flexible ways of transforming and mashing up data. After applying the update, available now to Office 365 subscribers, Excel 2016 will allow users to append multiple tables using a single Append operation. In the past, combining more […]