Pedro Hernandez

Customers using Microsoft’s Azure Media Services for their video transcoding and streaming needs can now use Azure Active Directory (AAD), the company’s cloud-based identity management platform, to exert control over user and application access. Microsoft issued a new REST API (application programming interface), the company announced on June 22. “With the release of this update […]

In today’s tech-obsessed workplaces, loose lips are giving way to freewheeling fingers. Sensitive business information can easily cross network boundaries with an ill-advised email, chat message or on a cloud file sharing service. Helping businesses avoid the damage done by employees that are prone to spilling secrets, not to mention the regulatory scrutiny that may […]

Microsoft is focusing its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) on other pursuits besides beating classic arcade games. One way the Redmond, Wash. technology giant is using its growing cloud-based AI toolkit is to combat tech support scams that trick Internet users into spending money on dubious software. Typically, these scams involve pops-up ads, seemingly from […]

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 preview build includes a welcome change for IT professionals who may have lost some sleep over the recent WannaCry ransomware outbreak. Build number 16226 of the operating system, released to members of the Windows Insider early-access programs in the fast ring this week, finally dispenses with SMB (Server Message Block) version […]

Microsoft may be bullish on cloud-based analytics, but so is the job market. To help prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s data-driven workplaces, the Redmond, Wash. software giant announced that it has partnered with Kelley School of Business at Indiana University on a dual-certificate program based on the Microsoft Professional Degree (MPD) data science program. Introduced […]

Microsoft is rolling out new updates for Outlook 2016 for the Mac, including a feature that allows users to postpone the delivery of an email. Available now to Office Insider members who are enrolled in the Fast ring of the early-access program, the Send Later feature does just what its name suggests. Outlook’s Send button […]

Microsoft on June 20 released Dictate, a new voice input add-in for Office that works with the Windows versions of Outlook, Word and PowerPoint. Of course, dictation software is hardly new. In fact, both Microsoft and Apple include basic dictation functionality in their respective desktop operating systems, not to mention popular offerings like Nuance’s popular […]

Microsoft on June 20 officially launched Stream, an enterprise video hosting and streaming service that’s set to replace Office 365 Video. The software giant first unveiled Office 365 Video in 2014 as a solution for businesses seeking to share video content with their users. Based on Azure Media Services, Microsoft’s cloud-based streaming platform that’s famously […]

This spring, Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite (OMS) gained a new feature called Service Map. As the name implies, it generates a real-time dependency map that encompasses servers, processes and third-party processes. It enables users of the cloud-based management platform to quickly visualize complex business IT service environments, even if they span multiple data centers and […]

Windows and Office users are growing accustomed to Microsoft’s relatively new semi-annual update schedule. This fall, Windows Servers will join in the tradition. Erin Chapple, general manager of Windows Server at the Redmond, Wash. software maker, announced the change in a blog post, saying the move will align with the existing, twice-yearly feature releases that […]