Pedro Hernandez

Harman Kardon Invoke, the Cortana-Enabled speaker first announced in December 2016, will finally hit store shelves on Sunday, Oct. 22. Apart from Microsoft’s virtual assistant technology, Harman Kardon, a Samsung company, is banking on high-quality audio and a dash of style to help Invoke speakers win a place in people’s homes. “Invoke delivers powerful 360-degree […]

The wait’s finally over. Visio Online, the browser-based version of Microsoft’s diagramming software, is now generally available, ending a public beta that began in December 2016. “Visio Online comes with a host of templates for a variety of audiences, including starter diagrams for basic flowcharts, process diagrams, timelines, business matrixes, Specification and Description Language diagrams, […]

Dell EMC is giving its Azure Stack hybrid cloud solution a hefty upgrade, courtesy of the company’s latest PowerEdge servers. First unveiled at the inaugural Microsoft Ignite conference in 2015, Azure Stack is a software and converged hardware bundles offered by select server manufacturers. It provides infrastructure and platform as a service functionality, essentially enabling […]

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has other things to offer besides mixed-reality support. Although mixed reality may be the update’s headline feature, the latest version of Microsoft’s desktop operating system also has things in store for users who may never strap on a headset to explore virtual worlds or partake in augmented-reality experiences. Rather, it’s […]

Azure Government, Microsoft’s portfolio of secure cloud services for municipal, state and federal government agencies, may soon be entrusted with some of the United States’ secret information. Tom Keane, head of Global Infrastructure at Microsoft Azure unveiled on Oct. 17 a new cloud service offering called Azure Government Secret. The service is aimed at “government […]

As promised on Sept. 1 at the IFA 2017 consumer electronics trade show, Microsoft officially released the final version of its Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on Oct. 17. “Today, we deliver the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update offering breakthroughs in creativity—from bringing mixed reality and 3D to the masses, to faster broadcasting for gaming, […]

Coinciding with the official release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on Oct. 17, Microsoft unveiled the Surface Book 2, now with a 15-inch model. Microsoft made waves in October 2015 when it took the wraps off its first-ever laptop, the original Surface Book. The Windows 2-in-1 hybrid device featured a detachable screen, a […]

Microsoft is making it easier for IT executives and professionals to keep track of how cloud computing portfolios of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure compare with its new Cloud Services Map. Both cloud giants have seen their respective services catalogs grow by leaps and bounds over the past several years, making it tough for […]

As predicted, Microsoft’s high-profile email privacy case has attracted the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention. Over a year ago, on July 14, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed an earlier decision requiring Microsoft to turn over to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) emails that are stored in an Irish data […]

Cortana has learned a new skill that will someday help Windows 10 users organize the interesting content that they encounter on the web. Cortana Collections, part of Windows 10 Insider preview build 17017, is a new feature that pops up when users are researching products or events online. It appears as a system notification when […]