Today at the Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference
(WPC) in Houston, Texas – Microsoft executives took the stage to
discuss the company’s devices and services approach with our partners.
Tami Reller, Windows CMO and CFO, talked about how Windows is the
foundation that people trust and how it’s powered by high-value services
– like Xbox, SkyDrive, and Skype – bringing customers a great
experience across all their devices.
Tami reiterated the momentum we’re seeing today with Windows 8, including our earlier announcement about 100 million licenses sold. Tami also mentioned that we now have more than 20 million enterprise evaluations and that Windows 8 has logged 60 billion hours of use. Additionally, she mentioned that new customer activation continues at a consistent pace.
Tami also made a few announcements.
She announced that Windows 8.1 RTM will be available for OEM partners in late August. This means OEMs will be able to get the RTM bits and begin preparing devices with Windows 8.1 just in time for the holidays! We’ll have more details to share in the coming months for consumers and other customers on how to get Windows 8.1. As you have heard, Windows 8.1 is an update that refines the vision of Windows 8. Two weeks ago, we announced the Windows 8.1 Preview for people to try out– if you have not already, check it out and experience the new features and improvements first-hand.
Jensen Harris joined Tami on stage to show off Windows 8.1. In his
demo, he showed off some pretty cool new features and functionality,
including how Windows 8.1 is optimized to work great on
small-form-factor devices and portrait view. He also demoed the Reading
List app that lets you share articles from the web and content from
other apps to read later which roams with you across your Windows
devices through the cloud courtesy of SkyDrive. And with 20 billion
searches on done via Windows PCs each month in the U.S. alone, Jensen
highlighted the huge opportunity to build a great search experience into
Windows and showed the new search experience in Windows 8.1 which is powered by Bing.
He also demoed a different kind of search for music integrated with
Xbox Music where you can share a webpage to the Xbox Music app where it
“scrapes” the webpage for mentions of songs to create a playlist for you
based on the music mentioned on a webpage. And finally, Jensen demoed
for the first time new technology built into Windows 8.1 called Miracast
that streams HD video and audio over Wi-Fi to another display like a
TV. With Surface Pro, he essentially turned a TV into a whiteboard with
the OneNote app. You can watch Jensen’s Windows 8.1 “first look” demo from a few weeks ago here.
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Tami reiterated the momentum we’re seeing today with Windows 8, including our earlier announcement about 100 million licenses sold. Tami also mentioned that we now have more than 20 million enterprise evaluations and that Windows 8 has logged 60 billion hours of use. Additionally, she mentioned that new customer activation continues at a consistent pace.
Tami also made a few announcements.
She announced that Windows 8.1 RTM will be available for OEM partners in late August. This means OEMs will be able to get the RTM bits and begin preparing devices with Windows 8.1 just in time for the holidays! We’ll have more details to share in the coming months for consumers and other customers on how to get Windows 8.1. As you have heard, Windows 8.1 is an update that refines the vision of Windows 8. Two weeks ago, we announced the Windows 8.1 Preview for people to try out– if you have not already, check it out and experience the new features and improvements first-hand.
Tami also announced that...Read the rest of this post ------>
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