Pedro Hernandez

Delve, Microsoft’s context-aware search and discovery app for the workplace, already keeps users in the loop when important emails cross their inboxes or vital Office content makes the rounds. Now, Microsoft wants to help users keep better track of their time with the Delve Analytics add-on. Available now for Office 365 Enterprise Plans, Delve Analytics […]

Microsoft has released a preview version of its Bing Maps V8 (version 8) control, a major update to the company’s mapping platform for Web and mobile applications. First announced during last week’s Build developer conference in San Francisco, the new Web control and its interactive software development kit (SDK) offer new tools for developers looking […]

Cloud computing’s ascent in recent years has provided CIOs and IT managers with yet another security headache to contend with: shadow IT. Microsoft’s new Cloud App Security, officially released today, helps take the mystery out of this vexing problem. Shadow IT generally refers to the unsanctioned use of public software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud services […]

Windows 10 Anniversary Update, due out this summer, is shaping into a featured-packed refresh of Microsoft’s flagship operating system. During Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco last week, the company revealed that in addition to a smarter, more capable Cortana and new inking capabilities, it was adding native support for Hyper-V Containers to Windows […]

Microsoft and NetEnrich are working to bridge the gap between small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and the cloud. According to Raju Checkuri, founder and CEO of IT infrastructure management company NetEnrich, the cloud has made enterprise-grade IT capabilities more attainable to SMBs. But aside from email, file storage and a smattering of business software offerings, […]

Microsoft has partnered with the R3 blockchain consortium to help speed up development of distributed ledger platforms for the financial services industry, the Redmond, Wash., software maker announced April 4 during its inaugural Envision conference for business leaders in New Orleans. Blockchain is best known as the technical foundation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Hailed […]

Microsoft is getting closer to finalizing SQL Server 2016. On April 1, the company announced the availability of the database software’s third release candidate (RC). The software is “nearly feature complete,” said Microsoft’s SQL Server team in an April 1 blog post. “These include real-time operational analytics, rich visualizations on mobile devices, built-in advanced analytics, […]

While the industry is still buzzing about Microsoft bringing Bash to Windows 10, the software giant also unveiled several new Office 365 capabilities at the Build conference this week in San Francisco. Microsoft announced an assortment of new features, application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that are poised to change the way […]

Addressing the security concerns of businesses mulling placing valuable data on the public cloud, Microsoft this week announced a beta of Azure Storage Service Encryption. The no-charge feature enables businesses to safeguard Azure Blob (block, append and page blobs) data at rest, according to Lavanya Kasarabada, a Microsoft Azure Storage program manager. A blob is […]

One of the major themes of this year’s Build developer conference in San Francisco is “Conversations as a Platform.” Microsoft envisions ushering in an era of conversational intelligence, in which devices, software tools and cloud services coalesce to form intelligent “conversational canvases,” as CEO Satya Nadella termed the concept during his keynote presentation yesterday. One […]