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Larson-Green also showed off a preview of alpha code for PowerPoint, designed for the Modern experience on both Windows RT and Windows 8. “It’s gratifying to me that developers are doing really great work for Windows 8.” Those apps can be snapped together, with four per widescreen monitor.īallmer also emphasized that new apps for Windows 8 were on the way.
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Basically, all the apps “in Windows 8.1 have either been written for Windows 8.1 or updated for it,” she said. She also briefly explained integrated photo editing, plus new apps including Food & Drink, which can be manipulated via hands-free mode. Larson-Green also showed off personalization features, such as the ability to show photos via the lock screen, the ability to take a Skype call from the lock screen, and Windows 8.1’s ability to add personalized backgrounds. Users will be able to banish or Sweep emails from a certain sender, and then segregate automated emails, such as those from Facebook and Twitter, or subscribed newsletters, into their own folder.įree music streaming from from Xbox Music will comes with Windows 8, Larson-Green said, together with the ability to create a playlist from music it finds on the Web, she said.
Larson-Green showed off the new Mail app, due in the fall. Microsoft’s message at Build 2013 is that apps rule-both its own, and the ones created by third-party developers. With Windows 8.1, she said that Microsoft had added gestures to the on-screen keyboard, where users can slide their fingers across, tap, and then the word appears. The Twitter app has been designed for the new, smaller form factor. In portrait mode, the new Start screen works well on the new small-form-factor devices, Larson-Green said.
The company had over 800 updates to the products since Microsoft launched Windows 8 last October, and Windows 8.1 is the biggest. Julie Larson-Green, who runs the Windows division at Microsoft, said she was proud of how responsive Microsoft’s engineering team had become. Combining the Desktop and Start pages “refines the blend,” according to Steve Ballmer.
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