Microsoft failed to just take the wraps off its rumored 8-inch Surface for the exhibit. Nevertheless the company did share a handful of extra tidbits about a lot of the improvements it truly is building to Windows 8 using the 8.1 "Blue" launch that should perhaps make these more compact equipment a lot more usable.
Amongst the new small-screen gadgets that Microsoft's associates showed this 7 days were the 8-inch Acer Iconia W3 (together with the outsized keyboard); the Lenovo MiiX eight, an 8-inch tablet that has a stylus and 3G; 8-inch AMD Temash-based reference machines from Gigabyte and Quanta that companies can customize; along with the 7-inch quad-core Inventec gadget.
A person from the vital changes Microsoft is touting for this coming era of units is improved portrait-mode support. Windows Company Vp of Plan Management Antoine Lebond explained what is approaching the portrait-mode front through his remarks at Computex this week:
We did some function in Windows eight.one to have portrait-specific Start screen layouts that operate much superior. All the apps which might be during the box really operate equally as very well in portrait manner since they work in landscape.
We did some do the job at the gadget interface level about edge detection and things like that to create it much easier to have smaller bezels on these gadgets making sure that OEMs and folks who develop gadgets like this could construct exactly the types of devices they need, and Home windows eight.one will be excellent on them.
That's fantastic news for anyone who may have been disappointed when wanting to use their Surface area RT or Professional -- or other Home windows 8 or Windows RT tablets -- in portrait mode to no avail.
Leblond also talked up some previously disclosed Windows 8.1 attributes, for example the Metrofied Pc Settings, much more adaptable Snap possibilities, and touch-keyboard autosuggestion advancements as generating smaller-screen Windows 8 gadgets workable.
Microsoft's disclosure previously this 7 days that it'll make Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote (Business office Residence & Student 2013) available on sub-10-inch Intel-based Home windows eight.one devices left some scratching their heads, as desktop versions of these apps on Business are not touch-optimized.
I'm wondering if Microsoft might be generating the Metro/Windows Store versions of these apps available while in the box, instead. The Metro-Style versions of these four applications are in development as portion of Microsoft's "Gemini" wave of products. Maybe there's a Metro version in the Workplace Household & Student 2013 SKU coming?
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