Pedro Hernandez

Love it or loathe it, Microsoft’s minimalist and blocky Metro user interface will provide Windows its signature look for the foreseeable future, according to reports making the rounds. New details have emerged on an upcoming version of Microsoft’s operating system code-named Windows Blue. An enthusiast at the Taiwanese online forum PCBeta claims that Windows Blue […]

Microsoft is expanding its retail presence next year by opening at least six new locations, the company announced today. The news caps a year of rapid store openings, said Jonathan Adashek, general manager of communications and strategy for Microsoft’s Sales and Marketing Services Group. “It’s been a momentous year for the Microsoft retail stores. We […]

HTC, only days after it was revealed that Nokia is rebooting its Windows RT tablet plans, also is throwing its hat into the ring, according to an article in Bloomberg. The Taiwanese handset maker is making up for lost time. HTC is reportedly readying two Windows tablets for release in the third quarter of 2013 […]

Nokia is readying a 10-inch tablet that will rival Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet, according to a report from DigiTimes. Sound familiar? That’s because the Finnish handset maker was reportedly working on a Windows tablet in March, before Microsoft debuted the Surface and derailed Nokia’s plans. At the time, Nokia’s tablet called for a dual-core Qualcomm […]

Microsoft officials are seeing more researchers, who are trying to push the boundaries of scientific discovery but often come to the realization that there are too few supercomputers to go around, turning to cloud computing environments as a solution. Dennis Gannon, director of cloud research strategy for Microsoft’s Research division, said that clouds are providing […]

Microsoft is issuing an open invitation to Gmail users that were left smarting by Google’s decision to drop Exchange ActiveSync support for free accounts. Last week, Google announced that free consumer Gmail accounts would no longer support the Microsoft-developed email, calendar and contact synchronization protocol as part of the company’s “winter cleaning.” In an official […]

Nothing stings like getting slapped with the “old guard” label. In an era defined by the blistering pace of IT innovation, that’s exactly the indignity that tech titans like Microsoft, IBM and Research In Motion have been suffering lately. As business IT grows more social and mobile, Microsoft has lagged behind social enterprise startups and […]

Microsoft is shutting down Live Mesh on Feb. 13, 2013, cutting off access to users of the file-syncing and remote-desktop service. But don’t panic, says the software giant. SkyDrive storage cloud is ready to take over. Live Mesh first appeared in 2008 as Microsoft’s effort to simplify data, file and media sharing and syncing across […]

Google is dashing the hopes of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 users who were hoping for native business apps like Gmail and Drive. That’s because by Google’s reckoning, there simply aren’t enough users to drive demand. Google is no stranger to the Windows platform. The company offers a Google Search app for Windows 8. […]

Microsoft’s struggles in the tablet realm aren’t limited to slow Surface sales. They’re starting to spill over onto iOS, and it could affect plans to release Office apps for Apple’s market-leading mobile ecosystem. Officially, Microsoft officials have been tight-lipped on the topic of an Office app for iOS. It’s an understandable tactic, considering that the […]