Pedro Hernandez

Yammer kicked off on Oct. 15 a one-day event in San Francisco called the Working Social Tour to preview some of the new innovations that the software maker, a part of Microsoft since it was acquired in 2012 for $1.2 billion, is baking into its enterprise social networking platform. In a sign that Yammer’s reach […]

Microsoft has its sights on enterprise mobility with offerings like the Surface slate, Windows Phone 8 and the tablet-friendly Windows 8.1 operating system. Now, its funding arm is getting in on the act. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company’s startup incubator and venture capital division, Microsoft Ventures, announced on Oct. 15 its first funding recipient, SkyGiraffe. […]

Microsoft is taking aim at phablets—smartphones with 5- and 6-inch screens, generally—with Windows Phone 8 Update 3. Set to begin rolling out in the coming weeks, and showing up on handsets over several months, the mobile OS update “paves the way for future Windows Phone devices with 5- and 6-inch touch-screens,” Windows Phone Vice President […]

Windows 8.1 will launch worldwide on Oct. 18 (Oct. 17 in the U.S.), and in a final push ahead of its release, Microsoft and its partners are trumpeting what the OS update has in store for users. Proving that Windows isn’t all business, Microsoft cracked open a can of Fresh Paint. Mimicking the tools that […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed Aug. 23 that he was stepping down from his role as CEO within 12 months. New reports indicate that Microsoft has no intention of letting Ballmer stick around that long. According to Bloomberg’s Dina Bass and Peter Burrows, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is currently “winnowing a list of candidates” […]

When Windows 8.1 officially launches next week, users will find a visually revamped app marketplace where they can find and download new Windows software. Developers should find some perks, too. In an effort to build momentum for the new Windows Store, which trails behind Apple’s App Store and Google Play in both popularity and number […]

PCs may be circling the drain, but Microsoft is doing what it can to ensure that one of the desktop era’s most popular applications doesn’t suffer the same fate. As consumers snap up more tablets and smartphones instead of desktops, Skype has needed to evolve. “The computing landscape has changed significantly since Skype was founded […]

Microsoft announced Oct. 7 that Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2013, formerly Orion, has been given the green light in some regions. As promised by the software maker on July 2, Dynamics CRM Online 2013 is on track for a fall release. Indeed, the cloud-based customer relationship management platform is already in use. Simon Hutson, a […]

Inspired by the company’s Outlook.com webmail service, Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system update will include a default email app that is designed with tablet users in mind. A new Mail app awaits Windows 8.1 users when it is wrote Dawn Martynuik, director of Outlook.com Product Marketing in a blog post. She added that one of […]

People prefer Bing’s results to Google’s, asserts Microsoft in its “Bing It On” ads. A Yale professor is challenging those claims. The Bing It On challenge, which first appeared last year, loads Bing and Google search results side by side. Users, according to Microsoft, prefer Bing’s results—both are stripped of their branding—nearly 2:1 over Google’s […]