Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft and Adobe are building on the partnership that they forged in September 2017 with a deeper integration between the latter’s e-signature technology and Dynamics 365. Adobe Sign, part of the Adobe Document Cloud digital document service that allows businesses to securely capture signatures electronically and create paperless business processes, now supports multi-step Dynamics 365 […]

Microsoft’s educational push has taken a new, more video-based direction. The Redmond, Wash., software giant announced on June 18 that it has acquired Minneapolis-based Flipgrid, a social learning platform that leans heavily on video content to drive engagement in the classroom. Financial terms surrounding the deal were not disclosed. Flipgrid encourages class participation using video […]

SwiftKey, the popular predictive, AI-enabled keyboard for mobile devices, will be part of the next major Windows 10 update, which is expected to arrive sometime in the fall. Rather than peck at virtual keys, SwiftKey allows users to “swipe” across a keyboard to complete words. And the more it is used, the smarter it gets. […]

Add the Ruum project management app to SAP’s growing list of products that work with Microsoft’s business application and cloud services slate. During its SAPPHIRE conference earlier this June, the German software maker made waves by announcing that its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, dubbed SAP Cloud Platform, was officially available on Microsoft Azure. As it turns […]

Microsoft is giving Office’s user interface a makeover, including tweaks to the ribbon user interface (UI), new colors and updated icons. Over the next few months, Outlook, Word and other cornerstone Office applications will feature some revamped interface elements intended to help users get the most out of the productivity software suite from Microsoft. They […]

Power BI’s Drill Through data exploration feature is now available for Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) software’s mobile apps. First appearing in the Power BI Desktop client software, Drill Through allows users to create a guided, insight-gathering experience and add another layer of interactivity to their reports. Using filters, report authors can use existing data points […]

Making SAP Cloud Platform available on Azure wasn’t the only recent addition to Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. The company also introduced an “infrastructure-less,” pay-as-you-go data protection service called Azure Backup for SQL Server, allowing customers to back up SQL Server databases running on Azure instances. This approach frees administrators from managing backup agents, servers, storage and […]

Nearly a year after making its debut, Microsoft upgrades the Windows Autopilot deployment tool to further simplify the process of configuring PCs for employees in the workplace. Windows Autopilot slashes the time it takes organizations to set up a Windows 10 PC for employee use, often without requiring IT intervention. Users get to set up […]

Some of the earliest signs that Visual Studio 2019 is on the way can be spied over at GitHub, the popular online code repository that Microsoft is acquiring for $7.5 billion in company stock. “Because the Developer Tools teams (especially .NET and Roslyn) do so much work in GitHub, you’ll start to see check-ins that […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—SAP Cloud Platform, the business software maker’s platform as a service (PaaS) offering for business applications and the company’s in-memory database technology, is now generally available on the Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, the company announced during its SAPPHIRE 2018 conference here in Orlando. SAP announced Amazon Web Services support in 2017. In […]