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February 23, 2014 05:22 pm GMT
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft kicked off the action with a step ahead that points to the company’s ambitions to continue to press ahead with its multi-hardware strategy, and to do it without leaving too many legacy Windows users behind. Joe Belfiore, head of platform at Microsoft covering phones, tablets and PCs, confirmed that the Windows 8.1 update coming this spring will be shifting its focus to be more accessible on non-touch devices, a wider range of hardware, and customizations that will be more friendly to the education and enterprise sectors. But don’t call this a recall of touch: “None of the work we are doing has a negative effect on the touch experience at all,” Belfiore said. “We love touch.” He said that the update will be coming “this spring”, with no more specific shipping date. Also included, as people have reported, will be a return of a “start” button and screen along with discoverable search and power, and more mouse and key-board friendly features. Belfiore noted that while Windows 8 was, in the words of Belfiore, a “significant” update for Microsoft (with its touch UI, new folder architecture and so on), 8.1 will be a return to some of the older features that preceded it. “Some of these things leak and you can imagine how it feels to see people writing and speculating, so I want to set the record straight,” Belfiore said. “We love touch.” Since Windows 8 launched, Microsoft says that it has seen 200 million Windows 8 licenses sold, with Windows 8 / 8.1 has a larger market share than all versions of OSX; 40% of windows 8 devices sold in the US are touch enabled, and over 4 million app downloads. Hardware While Microsoft continues to work through its acquisition of Nokia’s devices business, today the company made a big play to talk about how it is working to expand the wider ecosystem beyond that Nokia business that it will be getting. Belfiore admitted that Microsoft may not have been the winner everywhere — the US “is a tough market for us”, he said — but he described 2013 also as “the year we ate our vegetables”. What does that mean? I *think* he was talking about the slog that Microsoft has gone through to roll out devices into different markets, some 91 in all currently, and across a wider range
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We Love Touch But Windows 8.1 Update To Focus On Non-Touch, More Hardware and More Focus On Education And Enterprise
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft kicked off the action with a step ahead that points to the company’s ambitions to continue to press ahead with its multi-hardware strategy, and to do it without leaving too many legacy Windows users behind. Joe Belfiore, head of platform at Microsoft covering phones, tablets and PCs, confirmed that the Windows 8.1 update coming this spring will be shifting its focus to be more accessible on non-touch devices, a wider range of hardware, and customizations that will be more friendly to the education and enterprise sectors. But don’t call this a recall of touch: “None of the work we are doing has a negative effect on the touch experience at all,” Belfiore said. “We love touch.” He said that the update will be coming “this spring”, with no more specific shipping date. Also included, as people have reported, will be a return of a “start” button and screen along with discoverable search and power, and more mouse and key-board friendly features. Belfiore noted that while Windows 8 was, in the words of Belfiore, a “significant” update for Microsoft (with its touch UI, new folder architecture and so on), 8.1 will be a return to some of the older features that preceded it. “Some of these things leak and you can imagine how it feels to see people writing and speculating, so I want to set the record straight,” Belfiore said. “We love touch.” Since Windows 8 launched, Microsoft says that it has seen 200 million Windows 8 licenses sold, with Windows 8 / 8.1 has a larger market share than all versions of OSX; 40% of windows 8 devices sold in the US are touch enabled, and over 4 million app downloads. Hardware While Microsoft continues to work through its acquisition of Nokia’s devices business, today the company made a big play to talk about how it is working to expand the wider ecosystem beyond that Nokia business that it will be getting. Belfiore admitted that Microsoft may not have been the winner everywhere — the US “is a tough market for us”, he said — but he described 2013 also as “the year we ate our vegetables”. What does that mean? I *think* he was talking about the slog that Microsoft has gone through to roll out devices into different markets, some 91 in all currently, and across a wider rangeOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tVs_p3uYFrM/
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