Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft has closed some pretty significant gaps in its Project Honolulu systems management software in the latest update to the technical preview of the toolset. Project Honolulu is a set of graphical user interface (GUI) tools that are meant to bridge the gap between the PowerShell command line and GUI tools like the Microsoft Management […]

Dynamics NAV 2018, Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for small and midsized businesses, is now generally available. James Phillips, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Business Applications division, announced on Dec. 1 that the software giant had officially released the new version, complete with improved interoperability with Office 365. Like the rest of Microsoft’s application […]

In five years Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. headquarters will look very different. As it stands now, the corporate campus Microsoft calls home is sprinkled with several, fairly non-descript office buildings, at least from the outside looking in. Workers walk, bike or are bussed between labs, offices and other facilities, oftentimes negotiating vehicular traffic to get to […]

In the future, Microsoft wants to help Windows 10 users travel back in time, to resume tasks that may have been sidelined by an urgent request from a colleague or simply forgotten among the day-to-day demands of a busy workday. A new feature called Timeline, first demonstrated during the Microsoft Build conference in May, will […]

Microsoft has officially dropped the beta or “preview” label on its Edge browser for Android and iOS devices. In early October, Microsoft released a preview of the Edge app for iOS followed soon after by the Android version. On Nov. 30, Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Microsoft Windows and Devices division, announced the arrival […]

Expanding on their existing strategic partnership, Microsoft will soon be offer SAP’s private managed cloud offering, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, on the Azure cloud computing platform. The offering will allow both companies customers to run the SAP S/4HANA suite of enterprise resource planning applications on a secure and managed cloud. Although they are stalwart competitors […]

Microsoft on Nov. 28 unveiled Azure Location Based Services, a set of APIs that allow developers to add location awareness to their cloud applications. Azure Location Based Services marks a major milestone in the both the cloud computing and Internet of Things technology markets, according Sam George, director of Azure IoT at Microsoft. “This is […]

Just in time for the holidays, Chromebook users, regardless of the model they acquired, can now download and run Microsoft Office. Running Office apps on Android smartphones and tablets is no longer a new or novel concept. On Chromebooks, it’s a different story, however. When Google announced in May 2016 that Chromebooks would run Android […]

Microsoft has added dozens of new locations to the Bird’s Eye feature in Bing Maps. Bird’s Eye uses oblique imagery processing technology to provide detail-packed views that can help travelers navigate their surroundings by sight. “Oblique imagery is a great complement to Aerial 2D imagery because it has much more depth and provides a view […]

As organizations quickly learn when they explore their cloud computing options, migrating to the cloud is often easier said than done. Microsoft is smoothing out that process, at least for organizations that have invested in the VMware ecosystem, with a new service called Azure Migrate. Available on Nov. 27, Azure Migrate will help users to […]