Pedro Hernandez

In another sign of Windows’ waning influence on Microsoft’s increasingly cloud and AI-focused product strategy, the Redmond, Wash. software maker is calling on its historically Windows-centric developer community to consider themselves Microsoft 365 developers instead. Debuting in July 2017, Microsoft 365 bundles Windows 10, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), Microsoft’s cloud-based mobile […]

Providing more evidence that the cloud, not Windows, is the driving force behind the “new” Microsoft, the software giant revealed the steps it is taking to prepare its developer community for the ubiquitous computing era during the Build 2018 developer conference in Seattle. Taking the stage for his keynote address, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, […]

Now that Microsoft’s Windows 10 April 2018 Update is finally making its way to users, it’s time to look forward to this year’s next major feature update, code-named Redstone 5. Available now to members of the Windows Insider early-access program, preview build 17661 of upcoming operating system update offers new ways to capture and work […]

Data center operator Equinix announced on May 3 that its Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute private connectivity service is now available in the Miami, Fla. and Paris, France metropolitan areas. Azure ExpressRoute establishes a private, dedicated link between an enterprise’s on-premises IT systems and Microsoft’s cloud, enabling secure and reliable data transfers that bypass the public internet. […]

Microsoft is refreshing its signature email client with new features that offer users more control over inboxes and calendars. Outlook, in practically all its flavors, will be getting some additional functionality this spring and over the next few months, announced the software giant on April 30. For example, business users who check or write emails […]

Following in the footsteps of its upmarket cousin, the Microsoft 365 Business suite now has new security enhancements meant to keep small and midsize business (SMB) users and the data they’re entrusted with safe. Earlier this month, while the IT security community was gathered at the RSA Conference in San Francisco (April 16-20), Microsoft added […]

NetSuite wants to make the ecommerce ambitions of its customers a reality in as little as 30 days with the latest SuiteCommerce release. During the recent SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas, the cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider, now an Oracle subsidiary, showed off an updated version of the commerce as a service offering, which […]

Windows 10’s next major feature update finally has an official name and a firm release date. Microsoft was reportedly poised to begin distributing the update on April 10, until it discovered a “blocking bug,” an issue severe enough that it halted the system software’s release. Prior to this, observant users spotted references to “Spring Creators […]

Microsoft’s rapid cloud container deployment service, Azure Container Instances (ACI), has shed it beta status and is now generally available, the Redmond, Wash. technology giant announced on April 25. With Azure Container Instances, users can take a serverless approach to deploying Linux- and Windows-based containers in the cloud. Serverless processing has been gaining momentum since […]

IBM is bringing its enterprise artificial intelligence assistant to IFTTT, paving the way for intelligent services that can do much more than tell users the weather or answer trivia questions, the companies announced on April 26. Watson Assistant, formerly Watson Conversation, made its official debut on March 20 during IBM’s Think 2018 conference in Las […]