
Windows 8.1 is an operating system used to run Windows computers. This software can be used by staff on university or personal computers, both on and off campus. As one reporter in the room was distinctly heard whispering to his colleague, “Apology accepted.Windows 8.1 is the current release of the Windows operating system, produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablets, and home theater PCs. Wednesday’s demonstrations come amid news of Windows 10 eventually being presented to existing users of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 as a free upgrade. However, attendees did see for the first time how Universal apps would be able to take advantage of runtime features built into Windows Phones, enabling them to adopt familiar functionality like swiping an entry to dismiss it, or swiping it in the other direction to open it in a new panel. If the Universal app versions of Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (which was not ready for prime time Wednesday) are distributed to Windows Phone 10 owners for free, and those apps can run on PCs, are users’ licenses to those apps limited to use on smartphones only? It’s an important question, because if licenses are indeed limited in this way, it implies the resumption of per-processor licensing for Microsoft software-which may not be popular for many Windows users. How the licensing of universal apps was not immediately clear. This is an important point for Exchange veterans, who will note that when syncing fails to take color-coding into account, not all the metadata attached to calendar information is being synced by ActiveSync.īelfiore showed how Cortana, the voice-driven personal assistant presently deployed in Windows Phone 8.1, can help Outlook users on both smartphones and touchscreen devices pull up email messages from the server, check calendar entries, and assess the current state of completed tasks. The demo included background syncing of calendar entries, including color-coding attached to those entries.

However, one demo Wednesday showed a very fully functional version of Outlook on a Windows Phone 10 device, presumably a Lumia 1520. In a universal Office app, functions in the ribbon have to be adaptable for repositioning on multiple devices NET Framework, developers can, for example, tap the full functionality of features like the Ribbon. Universal apps will likely be a little more limited than the desktop versions.
