Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft kicked off a public preview of a new Azure Active Directory (AD) feature that promotes mobile productivity while keeping sensitive business data under wraps. A new limited access option enables administrators to grant their users access to SharePoint on devices they don’t manage. Using Azure AD and Intune, Microsoft’s enterprise mobile device and application […]

Microsoft is now offering Azure SQL database customers a new service tier called Premium RS, along with a no-cost storage upgrade on select plans. “Premium RS is designed for your IO [input/output]-intensive workloads that need Premium performance but do not require the highest availability guarantees,” explained Jan Engelsberg senior program manager of Microsoft, Azure SQL […]

Microsoft’s Project Olympus, the tech titan’s open-source cloud server initiative, has turned its attention to artificial intelligence (AI). Along with graphics card maker Nvidia and Ingrasys, a subsidiary of contract manufacturing giant Foxconn, Microsoft unveiled the HGX-1 at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. The multi-GPU (graphical processing unit) system specification […]

Power BI is already helping tens of thousands of enterprise users draw insights from business data. Now, the cloud-enabled business intelligence and analytics platform can also help marketers keep up with current events. The software giant this week announced a new template, Advanced Search for Bing News, that employs a host of Microsoft cloud services and […]

Visual Studio 2017 reached the long-anticipated general availability milestone March 7, along with the first major update for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2017. But there’s more Visual Studio developer tools yet to come. Microsoft is also teasing some of the features coming up in Visual Studio Team Services, the cloud-based component formally known as […]

Microsoft kept its word. Visual Studio 2017 is now generally available, roughly a month after the company settled on an official launch date. Back then, the company promised the latest version of its flagship IDE (integrated development environment) would enable developers to build mobile- and cloud-first applications while adhering to today’s agile DevOps practices. Today, […]

Microsoft Access 2016, the database management system that is often bundled with Office, now supports the BigInt data type, enabling users to incorporate more external data sources into their Access applications. “Large Number (BigInt)—now a supported data type—provides additional analytical capability and deepens the integration experience when users are importing/linking BigInt data,” explained the Microsoft […]

Developers will soon have the tools for creating immersive, mixed-reality experiences in Windows, announced Microsoft on March 1 during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The company revealed plans to start shipping the Windows Mixed Reality developer kit later this month that include new hardware from Acer. The Taiwanese Microsoft hardware partner, best known […]

Recent updates to Power BI are enabling businesses to turn their users, regardless of where they are placed on the org chart, into informed knowledge workers backed by actionable data. A business insight that is tucked away in a binder or on a worker’s laptop is a missed opportunity to empower employees and help them […]

Porsche Design, HP and More Showcase New Windows 2-in-1s at MWC 2017 A number of hardware makers used this year’s Mobile World Congress to show off their latest Windows 10-powered two-in-one devices—ranging from Lenovo’s budgetMiix 320 to Porsche Design’s premium Book One. High-End Design From Porsche Vroom vroom. …  Porsche Design’s Book One features premium […]