Pedro Hernandez

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Pedro Hernandez is a writer for eWEEK and the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Previously, he served as a managing editor for the Internet.com network of IT-related websites and as the Green IT curator for GigaOM Pro.

Microsoft PowerApps Gains Power BI Tile for In-App Insights

Microsoft today unveiled a fresh batch of updates to PowerApps and Flow, the company’s no-code business application builder and workflow automation platform, respectively. Betting that given the right tools, so-called power users can on their own to create applications and work flows that boost productivity and efficiency, Microsoft released PowerApps and Flow last fall. Power […]

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 2 Tracks Delivery Plans

Microsoft released Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 2 this week, complete with a whole new way of charting the progress of developer teams. Update 2 is the last feature update the company plans to issue for the 2017 edition of the source code management system, according to Microsoft. In this latest release, Team Foundation Server […]

Microsoft Introduces Rapid Cloud Container Deployment Service

Microsoft today unveiled a new service dubbed Azure Container Instances that speeds the creation and deployment of containers on the company’s cloud. “The very first service of its kind in the cloud, Azure Container Instances (ACI), is a new Azure service delivering containers with great simplicity and speed and without any Virtual Machine infrastructure to […]

Microsoft to Outfit HoloLens AR Headset with AI Chip

HoloLens, Microsoft’s self-contained augmented reality headset, is set to receive an artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade. The Redmond, Wash. technology giant is working on an AI co-processor for the next HoloLens, the company revealed this week. Currently, HoloLens packs a custom chip dubbed the Holographic Processing Unit (HPU), which enables the device to map out a […]

Microsoft Paint Lives On, Moving to Windows Store

News that Microsoft Paint wasn’t long for this world caused a bit of an uproar online and across social media this week. After it was discovered that the software giant was removing the rudimentary image editor from future versions of Windows, users took to Twitter and other social networks to bemoan Microsoft’s decision to ditch […]

Microsoft Retiring Paint, PowerShell 2.0 in Windows 10 Fall Update

It’s no Photoshop, but many users have come to rely on Microsoft Paint over the decades when they needed to create a basic diagram or quickly resize an image. Soon, the Windows mainstay, along with several other features, will be a thing of the past. Microsoft has published its list of removed and deprecated features […]

Windows 10 Makes Business Gains Two Years After Release

As the two-year anniversary of the Windows 10 launch approaches (July 29), new research from Spiceworks indicates that enterprises may have warmed to Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system, but Windows 7 still rules the roost. In its latest survey of desktop operating system penetration rates in business, Spiceworks, the IT management specialist and professional online […]

Microsoft Readying Release of AI Bug Finder for Developers

Microsoft Security Risk Detection, formerly Project Springfield, will be generally available later this summer, the software maker announced. The cloud-based fuzz testing service uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to track down security vulnerabilities and other bugs in their software before they are discovered by attackers out in the wild. Fuzz testing involves subjecting software to […]

Microsoft Mints New Fortunes in the Cloud

In what’s becoming a familiar story out of Redmond, Wash., Microsoft posted upbeat fourth-quarter fiscal 2017 results based on the strength of its growing cloud computing operations. Last quarter, Microsoft generated $24.7 billion in revenue, beating Wall Street analyst estimates of $24.27 billion. Net income was $7.7 billion and earnings per share came in at […]

Microsoft Extends OneDrive’s Version History Feature to Include More File Types

Version History, a Time Machine-like feature that enables OneDrive users to view and restore older versions of a file, is one of the handier features of Microsoft’s cloud storage service. The downside for many users was that it only worked with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and other Microsoft Office files. This week, Redmond, Wash. software […]