Pedro Hernandez

In a bet that enterprises will snap up Surface slates with strong channel support, Microsoft is launching a business channel expansion aimed at luring corporate IT departments. The company today announced the new Microsoft Devices Program, a move that could potentially help boost enterprise adoption of the software giant’s in-house line of Windows 8 and […]

In the wake of the PRISM scandal, Microsoft is taking a page from Google’s playbook and requesting permission from the U.S. government to release more details about government requests for customer data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). On June 14, John Frank, vice president and Deputy General Counsel for Microsoft, announced that during […]

Not content to let Windows 8 serve as both a mobile and desktop operating system, Microsoft is banking that its flagship software platform will help advance a burgeoning and rapidly evolving field of 3D printing. 3D printing support will be among the many tweaks, enhancements and added functionality that the Windows 8.1 update will contain […]

Starting today, the general public can finally get some hands-on time with Windows 8.1, the first big update for its latest edition of Microsoft’s flagship operating system. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage for the keynote during the Build developer conference on June 26 and encouraged everyone in attendance and viewing the Webcast […]

Yammer is good business for Microsoft, and the software giant is showing no signs of resting on its laurels. On the one-year anniversary of the blockbuster Yammer acquisition announcement, Microsoft offered a peek at what the next six to eight months have in store for the enterprise social network. But first, the company took a […]

Microsoft is spending nearly $700 million on “Project Mountain,” a data center in West Des Moines, Iowa, that will aid in the company’s cloud expansion. The news emerged after Iowa’s Economic Development Authority Board approved $20 million in tax credits for Project Mountain, according to a June 21 report by the Des Moines Register’s Donnelle […]

Microsoft is working on making it tough to distinguish between Office 365 on the PC and its cloud-delivered, browser-based Web apps by narrowing the features gap. After previewing Office 365 Blog. She said Microsoft’s “goal is really to continue to retain the experience users are already familiar with. “We don’t think it should be any […]

After several days of weathering backlash from video gamers, Microsoft announced that it was rolling back its plans to institute the Xbox One’s used game restrictions and daily “check in” requirement. The Xbox One is set to go on sale in November for $499. This time around, the base offering will include the company’s Kinect […]

Microsoft and Nokia held advanced talks about a possible acquisition of the Finnish handset maker’s device business, according to a June 19 report in The Wall Street Journal. The negotiations, which took place as recently as this month in London, fell apart and the chances that Microsoft will make another offer appear slim. Sources familiar […]

Microsoft is expanding its Windows Azure cloud platform with yet another product within the company’s sprawling business software portfolio. The company announced on June 18 that Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Dynamics NAV 2013 enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) are now available on a cloud-delivered basis courtesy of the […]