Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft today released Email Insights, a lightweight application for Windows that borrows some of the contextual search capabilities of today’s search engines to help users quickly find information stored in their Outlook and Gmail inboxes. Email Insights is a project from Microsoft Garage, the software giant’s experimental app unit. The search companion app features auto-complete […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Ransomware was the cyber-security story of 2016, and it is likely to be a big story again this year, with malicious operators upping the stakes by going after bigger and more lucrative targets like corporations, public infrastructure and industrial control systems. Those were some of the conclusions from vendors and researchers during a daylong […]

Microsoft announced today that the final release candidate of Team Foundation Server 2017, scheduled to launch alongside Visual Studio 2017 on March 7, is now available for download. In addition to various bug fixes, the software includes a feature that can keep development teams from stepping on one another’s toes. “Probably the most frequently requested […]

The market rumors about the next iPhone is beginning to coalesce. It’s now pretty certain that there will be three new iPhone models, including a premium device designed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. The other two models are expected to be the usual update of features included in the iPhone 7. Apple […]

The IT industry’s attention is laser focused on security this week as the RSA Conference 2017 conference gets underway this week in San Francisco. Just before the event kicked off, Microsoft announced on Feb. 10 several new offerings and product updates aimed at helping its customers fend off hackers and keep their data safe. Examples […]

Cisco has joined the list of IT systems vendors producing systems that run Azure Stack, a hybrid-cloud software offering from Microsoft that enables organizations to run Azure software in their own data centers. The companies this week announced a new Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack, based on Cisco’s UCS (Unified Computing System) of converged […]

Microsoft wants to make broken promises and the workplace conflicts they cause a thing of the past. A year ago, the Redmond, Wash. software giant previewed a new feature for Cortana that would help Windows 10 users honor the commitments they make via email. This week, the general public can finally take the technology, dubbed […]

Data at rest encryption on Azure File Storage isn’t the only cloud storage-related update Microsoft has issued this week. On Feb. 8, the company announced a new instant file recovery feature for Azure Backup. As its name implies, Azure Backup is a backup-as-a-service offering from Microsoft that customers can use to offload their data protection […]

The wait is nearly over. Microsoft said today it plans to release Visual Studio 2017, the company’s cross-platform IDE (integrated development environment), on Tuesday, March 7 during a two-day launch event. The event, featuring interactive demonstrations and training sessions, will be live-streamed from the Visual Studio website. The news comes as the software giant celebrates […]

Microsoft is offering to protect Azure cloud computing customers from patent trolls amid a rise in cloud-based intellectual property (IP) lawsuits. Over the past five years, there has been a 22 percent increase in the number of cloud-based IP lawsuits filed in the U.S., noted Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, in […]