Pedro Hernandez

PowerPoint users no longer have to export their slides as images and jump through hoops to share their presentations on social media, thanks to a new add-on released today by Microsoft Garage, the software giant’s fast-track consumer app hub. “A new, free plug-in in PowerPoint developed through the Microsoft Garage is now available—Social Share,” said […]

Businesses executives are still struggling with digital transformation at their organizations and the cloud’s ability to accelerate the process. A big part of the problem is the sheer number of solutions vying for a slice of enterprise IT budgets. At the corporate level, “there is absolutely a problem with understanding the technology,” Evangelos Simoudis, managing […]

During the ever-escalating cloud storage war last year, Microsoft bundled unlimited OneDrive storage with Office 365 Home, Personal and University plans. At the time, Chris Jones, corporate vice president of Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, described the move as a “small part of our broader promise to deliver a single experience across work and life that […]

Microsoft continues to add new ways of exploring big data to its cloud-powered business intelligence offering, Power BI. Today, the software maker announced a new tool called the Timeline Slicer, a top-requested feature. “The Timeline Slicer is a graphical date range selector used as a filtering component in Power BI,” said Amir Netz, a Microsoft […]

Microsoft’s second stab at health and wellness wearables, the Band 2, is now available for purchase, according to an Oct. 20 company announcement. Revealed alongside the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 during Microsoft’s hardware event in New York City last month, the new Band is a massive overhaul of its blockier predecessor. Despite an […]

Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) project, is now officially supported on Microsoft Azure, the Redmond, Wash., software maker and cloud services provider announced today. Backed by IT heavyweights, including IBM, EMC and SAP, Cloud Foundry is an enterprise-grade software platform designed to help organizations develop, test and deploy scalable cloud applications faster. Befitting Microsoft’s […]

Businesses can now take Azure Data Lake Analytics, Microsoft’s big data analytics service in the cloud, for a spin, the Redmond, Wash., software giant announced this week. Microsoft debuted the Apache YARN-based offering on Sept. 29. Now, a month later, the company’s customers can spin up their big data analytics projects without massive upfront investments, […]

Microsoft is happy with its Windows 10 adoption figures and new changes to the automatic Windows Update feature on earlier versions of the operating system may push those numbers higher in the coming months. At last count, Microsoft reported that there were 110 million devices running Windows 10, due in large part to the free […]

Windows 10 IoT Core already supports the Intel-based MinnowBoard Max and popular Raspberry Pi 2 compact computing boards. Now developers have another maker board to choose from: DragonBoard410c. “We are very excited to add the DragonBoard 410c, which features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, to our family of supported Windows 10 IoT Core devices,” said […]

Microsoft is folding Sunrise, the popular calendar app for Android and Apple iOS devices, into its Outlook mobile app. And that means Sunrise’s days as a stand-alone app are numbered. “The Sunrise team is now officially a part of the broader Outlook product team, bringing a fresh approach to calendaring and combining it with Microsoft’s […]

Apart from the expected spec bump, one of the most noteworthy new features Apple packed into the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is 3D Touch. Similar to the Force Touch technology found the in latest MacBook, 3D touch enables new app experiences by pressing a little more firmly on their screen. For example, pressing […]

Developers looking to build intelligent apps that understand natural language no longer have to wait for an invitation to participate in the Project Oxford private beta. Project Oxford is Microsoft’s collection of machine-learning application programming interfaces (API) and services. During this year’s Build developer conference, the technology helped the company score a rare viral hit […]