Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft wants Skype to be the world’s interpreter. The company announced this week that Skype Translator, the real-time speech translation service included with the popular communications software, hit a significant milestone. Microsoft has added Japanese to the mix, bringing the total number of supported languages to 10. This enables automatic translation services for Japanese speakers […]

Microsoft today joined its rivals in offering customers a cloud-based container registry for their Docker container images. Azure Container Registry is now generally available, the company announced today. The service, available in preview since November 2016, serves as a cloud-based repository that enables customers to store and manage private Docker container images. “Azure Container Registry […]

The April 2017 update for Microsoft Power BI Desktop, the client software used to publish reports based on the cloud-based business intelligence (BI) service, now features a new data connectivity option that encourages work team collaboration. The new connector, dubbed Power BI Service Live Connection, is currently in preview and can be used to focus […]

Readying developers for some of the user experience improvements that have been added to the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft has officially released .NET Framework 4.7. The framework is included in the operating system software update. Although users will have to wait until April 11 for Microsoft to start distributing Windows 10 Creators Update via […]

Two security-enhancing products for Office 365 environments, Threat Intelligence and Advanced Data Governance, are generally available Microsoft announced on April 4. The Data security in general is a natural priority for enterprises. But considering the wealth of sensitive and potentially valuable information contained in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Access databases, Microsoft decided to focus […]

Microsoft promises to give users more control over their personal data and visibility into how it’s used when the Windows 10 Creators Update arrives on April 11. However, eager Windows 10 users can manually initiate the installation starting today if they don’t wish to wait for the automatic Windows Update. In light of recent controversies […]

Project Online, Microsoft’s cloud-based project and portfolio management offering now supports up to 30,000 projects, a six-fold increase over the former 5,000-project limit. The upgrade means larger organizations can now create and manage more projects on the platform without resorting to workarounds that add complexity and can hamper productivity. Microsoft has also switched to a […]

Meta Description: The first release candidate for Microsoft’s Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 includes more than 100 features, enhancements and bug fixes added since the October 2016 beta edition. Microsoft’s Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 (CNTK) just hit a major milestone. The artificial intelligence (AI) toolkit is now out of beta and a major step closer to an official […]

Microsoft launched CodePlex, a collaborative software development and open source code sharing platform in June 2006. On Friday, the Redmond, Wash. technology giant announced that it is shutting down the site later this year. “CodePlex provides a forum to bring together developers from around the world and gives them tools, source code and an advanced […]

Windows 10 is gaining traction among corporate buyers, but Microsoft’s venerable Windows 7 is still the operating system to beat. In its latest analysis of the business desktop OS market, Spiceworks found that Windows 7 maintains a commanding lead. According to deployment data gleaned from the IT management specialist’s community, along with the survey responses […]