Pedro Hernandez

Office Lens, Microsoft’s scanner app for capturing information on physical documents and receipts, now connects to Office 365 school and work accounts. Available now at Apple’s App Store, version 1.2 of the app for iPhone enhances the app’s cloud storage and collaboration capabilities for users whose organizations are invested in Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity ecosystem. […]

Aside from the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 going on sale, today is another important milestone for Microsoft’s retail ambitions. The Redmond, Wash., technology company opened the doors to its first flagship store in New York today. Located at 677 Fifth Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets, the store is situated in a popular […]

One of the few genuine surprises of this month’s Microsoft hardware event in New York was the reveal of the Surface Book, the company’s first 2-in-1 laptop. Now, after Surface Book’s Oct. 6 unveiling, buyers in the United States and Canada can take it home. Surface Book (pictured) starts at $1,499. Panos Panay, head of […]

Windows 10 is gaining ground in the enterprise, despite lingering concerns from IT pros regarding the operating system’s patch process. During an investor conference call Oct. 23 discussing the company’s fiscal 2016 first-quarter earnings, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said there were “more than 110 million monthly active devices running Windows 10.” Most of the upgrades […]

Microsoft makes no secret about its big data ambitions for Azure. In June, the company announced that it was working on enabling MapR clusters on the company’s cloud. Now, customers can spin up their MapR-based big data processing environments directly in the Azure Marketplace. “Using the streamlined Marketplace UI one can easily setup 3, 6, […]

Microsoft announced today that it posted revenue of $21.66 billion during the company’s fiscal year 2016 first quarter ending Sept. 30, a 7 percent year-over-year decline. Net income was $5.38 billion, or 67 cents per share, beating Wall Street estimates of 59 cents per share, a 3 percent improvement. In what is now a familiar […]

Microsoft published the 2015 Citizenship Report for the fiscal year 2015 on its new Transparency Hub this week, announced the software giant’s president and top lawyer, Brad Smith. “As we work to create more personal computing, build the intelligent cloud and reinvent productivity and business processes, our citizenship commitments and actions play an important part […]

OneNote will soon allow users to convert their hand-drawn doodles into precise, computer-generated shapes, Microsoft announced. “Ink Shape Recognition is a new mode that will automatically convert your hand-drawn shapes into perfect-looking shapes while inking,” wrote Ian Mikutel, a Microsoft OneNote Ink product manager, in an Oct. 20 blog post detailing the new feature. “It […]

Microsoft wants to make it easier for users of the Power BI mobile app to share their business intelligence findings, keep an eye on group dashboards and monitor their Mandrill data. An update to Power BI for Android now allows users to annotate and share snapshots directly from the dashboard, said Romi Koifman, program manager […]

On Oct. 6, the European Union’s (EU) top court ruled that the Safe Harbor provision was invalid. The legal framework efficacy—it required U.S. companies to protect data belonging to Europeans—was cast into doubt after Edward Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, leaked documents detailing the U.S. government’s intelligence-gathering capabilities. Now, multinational companies […]

Microsoft is serious about turning its Windows-powered, laptop-replacing Surface Pro 4 tablet into the go-to mobile productivity solution for enterprises. Last month, the company raised eyebrows by announcing that Dell and Hewlett-Packard would resell the Surface Pro 3 to business customers, right alongside their own Windows tablets and two-in-one PCs. The move, part of the […]

Skype for Web, the browser-based version of Microsoft’s communications app, can come in handy when users can’t (or won’t) install a Skype client on their devices. Now, it can help users better connect with practically anyone with Internet access. “We’ve started to roll out the ability for users to invite anyone to join a Skype […]