Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is giving it another shot. The last time the software giant attempted to commercialize Windows devices powered by mobile ARM chips, not including its phone hardware, it resulted in a nearly-billion-dollar loss for the company. Unlike the company’s current crop of fairly successful Surface devices, the original Surface RT flopped when potential buyers discovered […]

Microsoft’s portfolio of cloud-based enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) solutions is about to get bigger. The company that it is readying a new software as a service (SaaS) offering called Microsoft IoT Central. When it becomes generally available in the coming months, it will help streamline the process of building and managing IoT deployments for […]

Microsoft’s collection of officially supported Cognitive Services offering has grown by three this week. The company announced the general availability of the Face and Computer Vision APIs (application programming interfaces) and Content Moderator, enabling developers to add artificial-intelligence (AI) and machine-learning capabilities to their applications. Microsoft Cognitive Services is an Azure-backed collection of over a […]

SQL Server 2017, which will run on both Windows and Linux, is inching closer to release with a set of artificial intelligence capabilities that will change the way enterprises derive value from their business data, according to Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant on April 19 released SQL Server 2017 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.0. […]

Microsoft is turning the email inbox into a less insular experience for users of Outlook on macoS, iOS and Android. The software maker has begun distributing updates for commercial Office 365 customers that will enable the Groups feature that’s already available in Outlook for Windows PCs and the web-based version of the software (not to […]

Window Server will soon natively run Linux containers using the company’s Hyper-V container isolation technology, Microsoft announced during Dockercon 2017 conference. The project to enable the new capability was officially launched at the event, currently taking place in Austin, Texas. It seems Satya Nadella wasn’t kidding when he claimed that “Microsoft loves Linux” in October […]

The software maker is currently rolling out a first quarter (Q1) update that includes support for SharePoint lists with more than 256 entries. “PowerApps can now connect to large SharePoint lists and filter through more data where it originates, making it possible to deliver high-performance apps that are backed by large enterprise systems,” said Darshan […]

Microsoft today announced it is acquiring Intentional Software, a Bellevue, Wash. group productivity specialist for a price that wasn’t undisclosed . The companies expect the deal to close after it receives the necessary regulatory approvals. Intentional Software was founded in 2002 by Charles Simonyi, a former Microsoft executive who lead the development of key Office […]

Next week, Windows 10 Creators Update is scheduled to begin making its way to Windows smartphones. But corporate customers and users who were hoping to extend the life of older Windows Phone devices may be out of luck. Just before the weekend, the Redmond, Wash., software maker released a list of 11 mobile devices (and […]

Microsoft made a splash last year when it launched Flow, the company’s business-focused answer to IFTTT. Today, the software giant launched an update that speeds up approval processes. Like IFTTT, short for “If This Then That,” Microsoft Flow enables users to chain together various software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and web services to accomplish complex tasks and […]