Windows 8.1 Product Guide 3 Windows: in sync 15 Great devices become 27 Windows devices and 32 Windows for app builders 40 Windows in action Contents with the way you live uniquely yours services for business 33 Proven technologies and 41 Taking and sharing 17 Choose the perfect 28 Your partner in productivity industry-leading tools class notes combination of style 4 Have more fun, and function 29 Great devices customized 34 Build the best games for 43 Planning a fantastic get more done for your business the best hardware vacation 18 The language of touch 5 More from the start 29 Always ready for business 35 Create immersive 45 Mixing some downtime 20 Make it your own app experiences with some uptime 6 Get serious about 31 Enterprise-grade security your games and music 21 Enjoy a personalized and authentication 38 Reach more app lovers 48 Windows: in sync with and videos experience across all on more devices the way you live – and your devices ready for you right now 7 Search, discover and do 38 More opportunities for revenue 48 Find out more about 11 Be your most productive the new Windows today and creative 22 Everything works, 39 Let the Windows Store everywhere work for you 13 Stay connected to what matters most 23 Stay confident: Windows works better with more stuff, at home and at work
25 Stay focused while Windows minimizes delays and distractions
26 Stay protected with the latest enhancements in privacy and security
2 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows 8 introduced innovation for highly mobile, touch-enabled, Windows: in sync and always-connected computing. Windows 8.1 is an evolution of the Windows 8 vision for a world where great devices are paired with the way you live with a powerful collection of essential apps and cloud-based services.
This is the new Windows, and it’s designed for the way you live. It’s advanced, delivering the best of new hardware designs and technologies. It’s personal, offering a range of choices that spans devices, designs, and displays. You get a selection of great apps, more cloud-powered entertainment, more communication and storage options, and a better web with new browsing and search experiences.
Best of all, Windows brings everything together so that all your apps and services work intelligently with each other and stay in sync with you. That’s the one-of-a-kind experience waiting for you on Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 today.
3 Windows 8.1 Product Guide With everything we do on our devices, wouldn’t it be great to Have more fun, have it all brought together? The new Windows brings together all the things we do, complete with a fantastic collection of apps and get more done services for the way we live.
Connect with friends on Skype, power up with Office*, kick back with Xbox, discover new apps in the Windows Store, and then use the cloud to keep everything backed up and in sync – Windows keeps pace with our life, regardless of where we are or where we go.
Best of all, everything on Windows is designed to work well together. The result is an experience that helps us be more productive, creative, and communicative. With Windows, we can get more done and have more fun doing it.
*Included with Windows RT 8.1; may require a separate purchase with Windows 8.1.
4 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Get the most out of your and downloaded Windows Store Travel, Food & Drink, Weather, More from Windows device by taking a few apps in sync from screen to screen. Calendar, Reading List, and more. the start quick steps at the start. Begin by going online and setting up your If you use your Outlook.com email Finally, be sure to check out the Microsoft account. It’s free and address as your Microsoft account, new Help + Tips app for an fast, and it connects your device many of the apps that come with instructional tour through the to the full range of apps and your Windows device – Mail, basics of navigation, using settings, services that makes Windows Calendar, People, SkyDrive, and and new features in Windows 8.1. so rewarding. Skype – will easily connect with When this app is paired with the the other services you use, like onscreen first-run pop-ups that With your Microsoft account, Facebook, Twitter and Google. help with key actions – such as you can shop for apps in the getting around, returning to your Windows Store and access Xbox Once your account is active, you’ll last app, and getting to Start games and other entertainment. be ready to hit the Windows Store – you’ve got great resources for You can store files in the cloud and for discovering and downloading making the most of Windows. get a free account on Skype. By a world of great apps. That’s on linking other Windows devices to top of all the fantastic and free your account, you can keep all apps that Windows provides out your files, settings, web pages, of the box, like Bing News, Finance,
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5 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Whether you’re watching a – including your iTunes library – to Video Games Get serious about movie, enjoying some music, or have all your stuff in one place. your games and gearing up to reach game Level 50, Xbox Video brings you the latest Discover the hottest new games, Windows delivers a seriously Ready to stream content from HD movies and TV shows available classics you love, and exclusives for music and videos entertaining experience with Xbox your PC to another device for and makes it easy to watch the Windows. apps and partner apps like Netflix, even richer viewing? Use Miracast things you love wherever you are. Hulu, the social DJ app edjing, and to stream to TVs and projectors many more – all available through through an adapter, and even the Windows Store. duplicate or extend the picture on a second screen. Xbox SmartGlass Xbox is more than great gaming gets your Windows devices and TV – it’s your complete entertainment talking to each other to enhance system in the cloud. Xbox Music your favorite shows, movies, music, has millions of songs to discover, sports and games. With SmartGlass, stream, and download. Xbox Video you can play a movie on Xbox 360 brings you the latest HD movies while reading about the cast on and the TV programming you love, another Windows device. all available from wherever you are. Import your existing media
Tens of thousands of great apps are available in the Windows Store, including your favorites across the world of 1 entertainment, movies, TV, video, music and games.
6 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows is great for all the ways Calendar Music Maps Search, discover, you explore your world – it helps and do you learn, search and do more. Calendar provides helpful, All the music you want, any way The Maps app, powered by Bing, powerful views of your schedule. you want it. Xbox Music brings helps you easily and quickly find Calendar is optimized for you all the music you love in one and get to the places you’re Exchange, with rich support for simple app. Re-imagined from the looking for. Quickly pinpoint, save arranging meetings and managing ground up just for Windows, the and explore the locations you care a busy schedule. Music app lets you access your about, get directions, see traffic collection, play the radio, and conditions, and more. The What’s Next view provides explore millions of songs for free, a look well-suited to personal right from the start. calendars.
One of the many apps Search destinations built in to Windows 8.1, OVERVIEW Bing Travel pulls together everything you With its seemingly limitless blue skies, need to plan a great trip enviable climate, miles of beaches and relaxed Southern California vibe, San Diego – and makes it easy to has much in its favor. The city’s roots as the complete the actions first west coast settlement of Spain and its that turn plans into proximity to Mexico are evident in the 18th-century Mission San Diego de Alcala, reality. the adobe-and-tile architecture and the sizable Hispanic community, but San Diego is very much an American metropolis, with its glass corporate towers, high-tech innovation, well-endowed universities and overflowing recreational and cultural attractions for visitors: world-class sailing, theater, wildlife parks, year-round outdoor living, adventurous fusion cuisine, inviting historic neighborhoods and some of California’s best surfing.
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7 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Bing Smart Search: resides in an app or in your Touch a more beautiful web Explorer 11, a single tap or click a better way to find settings (like how to change your shows your favorite sites along default printer), you don’t need to Browsing remains a big with your most-frequented ones So much of what we do on our use another mode of searching. part of what we do on our which are remembered connected devices begins with a One search finds it all. connected devices. The new automatically by the browser. search. With Windows, search has Internet Explorer 11 makes the web Browse tabs side by side, set been re-imagined to be all about Best of all, the results are displayed feel more like a beautiful app than privacy settings with one click, the results you need and the in an aggregated and organized a traditional browsing experience. and pin your favorite sites to the actions you can take. way that makes it easy to take Sites load fast and pages look Start screen. immediate actions. With a tap or bigger because navigation Search is easier than ever to click, you can call a contact, play controls are kept off-screen until Here, too, your Microsoft account initiate – just start typing at the a song, share something you’ve needed. Built for touch and for works to keep things in sync. Start Start screen or use the Search found, or save it in the Reading List speed, Internet Explorer 11 gives a browsing session on one charm from anywhere in Windows. for later. That’s why it’s called you a web that’s amazingly fast Windows device and continue it Bing Smart Search has widened smart search and why you’ll never and fluid on a tablet, phone, or on another – your settings, the net, so searches are global, want to go back to getting just a any touch-enabled PC. browser tabs, and history persist returning results from your PC, list of links. across your devices. It’s not a new your apps, your cloud storage, and You can set bookmarks in most web, but with Internet Explorer 11, the web. If what you’re looking for any browser, but with Internet it might feel like one.
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8 Windows 8.1 Product Guide A world of great apps find things fast with Bing Smart Plus, Windows has great ways to The apps that come with Windows Search, and plot the best route encourage the discovery of new Apps work are designed to work together to Windows offers you a wide world with Bing Maps. apps. Find new favorites by great together better fit how you do things. of app choices, from the essential checking out trending apps and apps that come built-in, to all the Now, you’re ready to visit the personalized recommendations. Take the Camera app, for example. apps you’ll discover and download Windows Store. This marketplace Go ahead and experiment – lots of When you take photos, you in the Windows Store. Start by offers the apps you already know apps and games are free and many typically also want to edit and checking out the apps that come and love, plus new apps ready for of the paid ones offer a trial period share them – so the app includes with your Windows device. you to discover, with more arriving so you can try before buying. And everything you need to create and daily. The redesigned store makes if you get or give Windows gift send amazing pictures. In the Food These essentials – including Mail, it easy to find what you want with cards, they can now be used across & Drink app, recipes generate their People, Calendar, Camera, and great layouts and intuitive the Windows Store, Windows own grocery lists and menus are Photos, along with Bing News, categories like recently-added Phone Store and Xbox Live paired with wine suggestions; it Weather, Sports, and Travel, to apps. And when you need to see Marketplace. even provides for hands-free name a few – cover the basics and the full list of your apps, the navigation – using your device’s more. Right out of the box, you’re condensed view makes it easy to front-facing camera to track ready to get things done with see even the largest app collection gestures – for when you’re up to Office*, have some serious fun at a glance. your wrists in cookie batter. with Xbox music, video and games,
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9 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Bing Travel Bing Weather Bing Health & Fitness Bing Food & Drink Bing Sports Bing News
The Bing Travel app lets you The Bing Weather app helps you Bing’s Health & Fitness app is the Chock full of recipes, wine The Bing Sports app helps you The photo-rich Bing News app explore more than 2,000 prepare for the latest conditions one-stop spot for a healthier you. information, and cooking guides, easily keep up with all the sports makes it easy to stay up to date destinations from all over the with hourly, daily, and 10-day It combines nearly 1,000 exercise the Bing Food & Drink app is and teams you care about with with the news that matters most to world through beautiful photos forecasts; easily customized videos; nutritional and medical designed to be used in the kitchen, headlines, scores, schedules, you, delivered in a customizable and 360° panoramic views, as well favorite locations; and interactive references; and exercise, diet, and especially with the “hands-free” standings, statistics, and much experience with personalized as attraction, hotel, and restaurant weather maps that keep you health trackers to help you meet mode to navigate recipes with a more in a personalized experience coverage of the topics you choose, recommendations. It’s a window to informed of upcoming weather as your wellness goals. wave of the hand instead of sticky with Live Tile updates on your from national and local sources the rest of our world. it develops. fingers on the computer. favorite teams. you trust.
10 Windows 8.1 Product Guide A big part of our day is about Collaborate with Office 365 Reading List Reader Be your most getting things done. Whether it’s productive and meeting a work deadline or Office 365* gives you access to the Do you ever run out of time to Open your PDF, XPS and TIFF files finishing up a personal project, same Office tools you rely on, but read articles or watch videos with the Reader app. Zoom, search, creative Windows can help us stay creative with new features that are ideal for you’ve found online? Reading List take notes, save and then print or and productive. collaborating. You can easily share lets you easily track and manage share files. and sync calendars, notebooks, any content in a beautiful display For peak productivity, nothing and files with others – just send to get back to later. matches the power of the full the link or use free Office web Office suite. Windows gives you apps for viewing and editing. Word, PowerPoint, Excel and You can add online videos to OneNote; on Windows RT 8.1 documents, open and edit PDFs, devices, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and align pictures and diagrams Outlook, and OneNote are with minimal fuss. Excel templates included. You can multi-task like make quick work of setup and an expert, with a split-screen design, and new PowerPoint tools capability that displays up to four help with alignment, color- apps at once, depending on the matching, and template design. size of your monitor. There’s an Use OneNote to take notes in amazing new global search whatever way you prefer – your and a new touch-optimized notes are saved, synced to your Internet Explorer 11 that’s fast other devices, and searchable. and streamlined. And if you get Noticing a pattern here? Virtually interrupted or need to take a everything can be shared and break, use Reading List to synced easily with other people bookmark apps and web pages and then, using Office, they can to quickly return to them later. sync and share with you.
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11 Windows 8.1 Product Guide SkyDrive for anywhere access Windows 8 devices using your up your PC and store your settings Want to express your inner Van Microsoft account, or from any in case you need to set up a new Apps to explore Gogh? With Fresh Paint, available For many of us, our ability to browser at SkyDrive.com. Available device. Save your photos to your creative side free in the Windows Store, you can create new photos and files has offline as well, your files are kept in SkyDrive by setting up a backup of paint what you imagine, and share outpaced our ability to store or sync in the cloud. If you delete a your camera roll – it’s great to have what you create. And you don’t access them easily. Vacation file by mistake, you can recover it access to your photos from any have to worry about mistakes. photos here, work files there, and by going online to the SkyDrive device. Your first 7 GB of SkyDrive Undo and erase have you covered. we’re not really sure that recycle bin. You can also start a file storage are free, and you can easily everything is backed up. SkyDrive on one device and, by signing into upgrade whenever you need more. Apps work great together. With is the cloud-based solution to it all, another PC or tablet, pick up the Camera and Photos apps, plus from saving and storing to sharing where you left off, knowing that the new Scan app, you can keep a and backing up what matters to SkyDrive has saved all files and digital album of your best photos. you. It comes built-in to Windows settings. SkyDrive is also built-in Save it to your SkyDrive for access and is as easy to use as a folder on to Windows Phone, and SkyDrive to your photos from across your your PC. apps are available on iOS and Windows devices. Use the Sound Android. Recorder app to capture your With SkyDrive, you can access voice narration. your files from virtually anywhere SkyDrive can also give you peace you can get online – from other of mind when you use it to back
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12 Windows 8.1 Product Guide We want to stay close and Manage your life Mail Outlook.com Stay connected connected to all the people in our to what matters life, no matter where they are or The updated Mail app and Automatically organizes your Makes your email productive. where we go. Windows serves as Outlook.com give you a powerful inbox, with quick views of your Makes your Windows personal. most an essential communication hub and personal mail experience. No favorite people, flags, folders, Outlook.com is the world’s fastest- for all the ways – email, video chat, matter if it’s your personal or your newsletters, and social updates. growing email service and has social updates – we stay in touch work mail – you can handle Quick commands in the message more than 400M active accounts. with our world. multiple accounts in one place. list, drag-and-drop, and Sweep for The people view helps you track Outlook.com help you breeze incoming mail from your most through messages. important contacts. The newsletter and social update views channel this mail out of your inbox and into a separate view that you can browse when it’s convenient. Use the Sweep feature to automatically keep your inbox free of unwanted mail. With the updated Calendar app, you can quickly create events
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13 Windows 8.1 Product Guide and view your schedule for Connect with people Stay connected even People Skype multiple accounts. when you’re apart The People app is your universal Bring all your contacts together With Skype, you can stay close to Want to email a file that’s not on address book. See contacts from When only a face-to-face in one place. See what’s new with friends and family even when you’re your device? The Mail app can all your address books in one place, connection will do, Skype is the your friends, and join in the apart. Your Skype instant message access content saved to SkyDrive and get the latest updates from way to go. Chat with your best conversation by adding your own will automatically snap to the side as just like Office does. And your friends. Sync contacts from friend, see the kids when comments and updates. you’re watching a show or playing a managing multiple inboxes is a social networks like Facebook and you’re on the road, or catch up game, and you can quickly flip snap, as the Mail app lets you Twitter. When you want to get in with the relatives. With Skype on between an audio or video call and connect to multiple mail accounts touch with someone, you can send Windows 8.1, your people and an instant message all in one app. and pin specific mail folders to the email, call them, or post to social recent conversations are just a tap Plus, share a file, photo, or video Start screen. Designed to fit the media directly from the People or click away. message anytime. way we multi-task with email and app. Pinning to the Start screen is appointments, Mail and Calendar always an option, too because are great when used side-by-side your tiles are not just for pinning with other apps. apps. Pin friends and family members for instant access, and with ‘live’ tiles, you can get their updates right on your Start screen.
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14 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Your Windows PC or tablet is an extension of you, with many ways Great devices become to personalize your experience. Pick the perfect device, customize your Start screen with the content and backgrounds you want, and uniquely yours download apps you love from the Windows Store. Windows gives you virtually unlimited options for creating an experience that reflects the things that matter most to you.
15 Windows 8.1 Product Guide From the smallest tablets to the largest All-in-Ones, Windows devices come in a wide range of stylish, powerful and lightweight options so you can find the one that perfectly fits your needs.
16 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows devices have the You can find the precise style, Camera Choose latest hardware innovations in functions and features you want, the perfect such a range of choices that you’re even down to how to interact with Impressive and powerful editing sure to find a perfect match. New your device – via touch, type, click, is now simple and intuitive with combination chipsets mean powerful, or pen. Whatever mode you the new Camera app. of style and lightweight devices, from the choose, you’ll be able to switch smallest tablets, to beautiful touch smoothly between Start, your apps, Take standard-sized or 360° function laptops with high performance and the familiar desktop. And it’s panoramic photos. Edit and and energy efficiency, to devices Windows, so you know that your share your photos within with detachable screens or new device is compatible with a 10 seconds of taking them, convertible designs. vast range of printers, cameras, all within the Camera app. keyboards, mice, monitors and Your Windows device can also other accessories. serve as a hub for other things. Connect your PC to a large screen and enjoy top-notch entertainment with Xbox. Games come to life on powerful laptops and desktop PCs. High-resolution displays light up across all screen sizes.
Windows 8.1 supports devices with Bluetooth 4.0 LE, for high performance with great battery life. Mobile broadband keep you connected anywhere. Screens with multi-touch support have improved on-screen keyboard and text selection, with a split layout, numbers on the primary keyboard, and improved IME support.
17 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Swipe from the right edge Swipe in from the left Swipe in and out on the left to Swipe from the bottom or Drag an app The language for system commands to switch apps bring up previously used apps top edge for app commands to close it of touch
With specific gestures on a touch- Swiping from the right side Swiping in from the left reveals Swiping in and back out on the App commands are revealed by You don’t have to close apps. They enabled device, you can quickly of the screen reveals the charms thumbnails of your open apps so left brings up the most recently swiping from the bottom or top won’t slow down your PC and perform key activities like Search with system commands. Swiping you can switch to them quickly. used apps and you can select an edge. You can swipe from the top they’ll close on their own if you and Share; there’s a corresponding from the left brings up previously app from that list. to the bottom of the screen to don’t use them for a while. If you command for using a mouse or used apps. dock or close the current app. want to close an app, drag the app keyboard, so you can interact in to the bottom of the screen. whatever way you prefer. Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Place the mouse pointer in the Place the mouse pointer in the Place the mouse in the upper left Right-click the app to see the Click the top of the app and drag lower- or upper-right corner of upper-left corner, and click to cycle and slide down the left side of the apps commands. it to the bottom of the screen. the screen. through apps, or in the lower-left screen to see the most recently corner to see the Start screen. used apps.
18 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Press and hold Tap to perform Slide to drag Swipe to select Pinch or stretch Rotate to turn to learn an action to zoom
You can see details when you Tapping something causes an This is mostly used to pan or scroll Within an app, swipe down or Zooming provides a way to jump Rotating two or more fingers turns press and hold. In some cases, action, such as launching an app or through lists and pages, but you across an item to select it. A quick, to the beginning, end, or a specific an object. You can turn the whole pressing and holding opens a following a link. can use it for other interactions, short movement works best. On location within a list. You can start screen 90 degrees when you rotate menu with more options. too, such as moving an object or Start, press and hold to select a tile. zooming by pinching or stretching your device. for drawing and writing. two fingers on the screen.
Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Mouse equivalent Point to an item to see more Click an item to perform an action. Click, hold, and drag to pan or Simply right-click to select within Hold down the control key on the Support for rotating an object options. scroll. Also, when you use a mouse the app. keyboard while using the mouse depends on whether the specific and keyboard, a scroll bar appears wheel to expand or shrink an item app supports it. at the bottom of the screen so you or tiles on the screen. can scroll horizontally.
19 Windows 8.1 Product Guide You picked the right device, and that you can get to the full list of having to visit the Start screen Make it now you’re ready to personalize it. apps and contacts in one swipe or to access it. You can also decide to your own First, for the Lock screen, you can click. Select from a variety of colors, sign on with a Picture Password choose a photo, a series of photos background designs or personal over a traditional password. for a slide show, and the apps you photos to make it an expression want to display notifications to of you. With Windows, your experience is make this screen both personal as unique as your own fingerprint, and informative. You’ll notice something interesting but more flexible because you can when you select your tiles and pin change things at will. Of course Next, the Start screen is where them to Start. Instead of a set of you’ll love it – you designed it. everything that comes first in your static icons, your tiles are dynamic, life comes first on your screen. displaying constant updates, so Your favorite apps, sites, and you see the latest weather forecast people are here – choose what and stock prices, for example. gets pinned and how the tiles are Additional personalization choices displayed, right down to the order, include the option to boot straight number, and size. Pin everything to the desktop or your favorite you use daily, or go with a app, so you can go straight to the minimalist approach, knowing app you use most instead of Sheila Start Marchand On your Start The Lock screen is screen, you can have one of the ways you can ‘live’ tiles dynamically personalize your display; refresh to deliver choose your colors and updated information, designs or even select a Regina Roberts Office hours like weather forecasts Shazam set of personal photos RE∶ Pick up the kids on Thursday? Sheila’s office and stock prices. New app in the Store for a slideshow of great moments. That sounds great. See you then! 9∶30 AM – 10∶30 AM Free ★★★★☆ 1226 Wednesday9
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Polar bears enjoy fun and freedom 20 Desktop SkyDrive WeatherWindows 8.1 in their new home Maps Reading List Product Guide With Windows, you can get Photos Sound Recorder SkyDrive Enjoy a a coordinated, personalized personalized experience on all your screens. Edit and organize your photos Record anything from a lecture Your files, always with you. Never This is possible because you can with great editing capabilities to to a baby’s first words with the lose photos or videos, and always experience across link your content and settings to crop, enhance, and add effects built-in sound recorder. Play back, have them with you. all your devices your Microsoft account, which is to your photos. edit and share your recordings. attached to you instead of to any Pictures, videos, and documents particular device. are automatically saved to SkyDrive. Not just another password to remember, your Microsoft account can connect and coordinate information across devices, so your Windows Store apps, settings and browsing history are there for you. You get a consistent experience from screen to screen, even when you’re logging in on someone else’s device. And with SkyDrive storing your files in the cloud, you can get to your stuff regardless of where you are or what device you’re using.
21 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows devices and services are designed to stay in sync with Everything works, your life. A big part of that means taking care of essential functions so you can stay focused on what matters. Across your personal and everywhere professional life and devices, Windows keeps you up to date, improves protection and performance, and keeps everything working well together. You’ll like the level of confidence and freedom that gives you.
22 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Printers, cameras, scanners, can use BitLocker technology for Calculator Scan Stay confident: keyboards, drives – most of us use device encryption, and employ Windows works peripherals and we need our multi-factor authentication for A simple yet powerful app that Quickly and easily scan documents devices to work well with them. personal devices at work. They includes a standard calculator, a and pictures, and save them where better with more Windows excels at cooperation, so can even manage business data scientific calculator, and a unit you’d like. stuff, at home your PC or tablet is compatible removal to protect devices that are converter. with a vast range of apps and lost or stolen. The Windows To Go and at work connected devices. Windows just feature in the Enterprise edition works better with more stuff. allows a complete enterprise environment, including apps, to That includes the stuff at work go onto a USB drive for use at that you need to access from other home or in the office. locations. New features, like auto-triggered VPN, let you work Whether at home or at the office, from more places with secured Windows gives you the confidence access to corporate resources – of knowing you can access and use like work folders, apps, and what you need quickly and services – from any Internet securely. connection. You can also stay connected with broadband tethering by turning your mobile broadband-enabled device into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot that allows other devices to connect.
Windows works well in corporate environments making it easier to bring the personal device you love to work– and bring your work device home – while keeping your IT department happy. IT departments running the Pro or Enterprise editions of Windows 8.1
23 Windows 8.1 Product Guide From printers and scanners to keyboards and mice, Windows works with a wider range of equipment and software, giving you the confidence that comes with compatibility.
24 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows has some great new controls up or down, like Alarms Bing Finance Stay focused features to sweep away suspending email notifications for while Windows distractions and help you focus. one hour while allowing other This simple yet beautiful and The Bing Finance app helps One of the first things you’ll notice apps like Calendar to stay on. multi-functional timing app comes you stay on top of fast-changing minimizes delays is how much faster starting and However you use them, your with alarms, countdown timers, market conditions to make and distractions shutting down are. That’s a result controls are a tap or click away and and a stopwatch. informed decisions, whether of InstantGo, which keeps data, you can change them whenever tracking your portfolio on your apps, and tiles updated with you want. Live Tile, spotting trends on the current information by exchanges, or using tools and maintaining a network connection calculators for common financial and syncing automatically, even tasks. while your device is in a connected standby state. Your device wakes up in an instant – going from standby to “on” in under 300 milliseconds – and it can conserve power for up to 14 days of battery life.
You’ll also notice fewer distractions. Windows and app updates occur in the background, so you keep current without being interrupted with downloads.
But some interruptions are a good thing, like when your alarm goes off or a Skype call comes in. Windows gives you more control over notifications. Use device-level settings to turn all notifications off and concentrate on a deadline. Use app-level settings to dial
25 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Security has always been Security and privacy take on Stay protected important, but in a mobile, added meaning when children use with the latest socially-networked world, privacy the computer. Windows provides is a top concern, too. Windows family-safety features that let you enhancements in helps protect you on all fronts, set individualized security and privacy and with features that are as powerful access settings for each family as they are convenient. member. This is much more than security just blocking off-limits websites. Right out of the box, you get With the ability to set specific safeguards against viruses, parameters for each personal malware and malicious websites profile, you can manage when and with Windows Defender and how long kids are online, and even SmartScreen, which analyzes sites get activity reports about time as you browse to detect and block spent, sites visited, and apps that threats. were accessed.
On devices enabled with InstantGo, Windows 8.1 encrypts your data at the hardware level, by default, to help safeguard your information even if your device is lost or stolen. With BitLocker device encryption, available on Enterprise and Pro editions, your Windows devices have additional management safeguards built-in, so there’s less hassle with downloads, updates, or having to check security logs.
26 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Your business operates in a new world of mobility, cloud services Windows devices and and employees’ personal devices. And your IT department is dealing with a whole new set of challenges. As your trusted business partner, services for business Windows has a wealth of new features to help your business stay ahead.
Windows brings together powerful productivity apps and a range of ways to ensure that your people can reach the resources they need from any device or location. It offers a range of great connected devices and powerful ways to customize them for your line of work. And it takes care of the management and security essentials so you can focus on your business.
27 Windows 8.1 Product Guide For people in the business of Windows is also the ideal platform personal devices, while still personal devices using a company Your partner in getting things done, there’s no for the in-house apps you’ve built allowing IT to maintain necessary portal. productivity better productivity partner than to run your business, as well as the controls. Windows. Whether in the office or apps you have in development, For people who need complete working remotely, your people can whether for your own customers, Via Workplace Join, employees access to their corporate network, rely on Windows to help them get employees and partners, or to sell can have their personal devices Windows 8.1 offers built-in VPN productive and stay that way. more broadly in the Windows authenticated for select access to clients by Microsoft and other Store. Existing desktop software company resources, without the leading vendors, with no need There’s nothing like the full power isn’t an issue because employees full domain join process used for to install a client before getting of the Office* productivity suite, can continue to use critical company-owned devices. With access. With auto-triggered including Outlook, Word, Windows 7 apps without worrying Work Folders, employees can VPN capabilities, people are PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. about compatibility. keep their work files in a local automatically prompted for Think of the new Bing Smart Search folder on their personal device credentials to connect, as soon as as another productivity tool, To your mobile workforce, access that syncs automatically with their they need access to an internal pulling in global results from across is just as important as apps. folder at work. There’s a portal app or URL. If they’ve already work files, the web and the cloud. Windows has powerful features option, too: using the Windows provided their sign-in credentials, There’s no need for separate search and options to give mobile Intune service for enrollment, IT the VPN connects automatically modes, just start typing your workers seamless connectivity can allow employees to access – no extra steps needed. search term at the Start screen. to business resources from their apps and services on their
Workplace Join allows employees to access company resources with authenticated personal devices without requiring the full domain join process used for company- owned devices.
*Included with Windows RT 8.1; may require a separate purchase with Windows 8.1.
28 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Every business is unique, and Windows device regardless of the Windows devices and services Great devices Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows 8.1 operating system on that device. Always ready are designed to stay in sync with customized for Enterprise have the customization for business your business, and that means options that fit the way your Windows also supports a range taking care of the essentials so your business business and your people work. of wireless flexibility. There’s Wi-Fi you’re always focused and ready. direct printing for using a printer The Start screen is the most visible without connecting to the network, Windows is known for protecting part of Windows and an ideal integrated Miracast wireless your technology investments by location for displaying apps, display (no need to carry around being uniquely compatible with services and sites specific to your multiple dongle adaptors), and an a vast range of hardware and business, even down to the tiles NFC tap-to-pair function that software. Windows also protects that display live updates, like with connects you with an enterprise IT infrastructure investments by sales orders and stock prices. You printer just by making a near-field letting IT staff manage the can even customize the layout so physical connection. personal devices people bring to workgroups get screens specific to work. IT has more options for their function. For users that work For people who are often away managing tablets and other device with a particular app, you can set from a Wi-Fi connection, some classes, including new support for their device to start up in that app, Windows devices now come with third-party mobile device bypassing the Start screen entirely. mobile broadband integrated management (MDM) products. Use Assigned Access when you right into the “system-on-a-chip,” want to lock a device to a single making online connections faster app or Internet Explorer, such as and more battery-efficient. If Wi-Fi for a kiosk on the retail floor. is only occasionally absent, you can use phone tethering to turn For customers using Windows 8.1 your Windows 8.1 device into Enterprise who also want the a personal hotspot where your flexibility of accessing apps and mobile broadband connection files on a variety of devices, there’s appears as a Wi-Fi network. You Windows To Go. Think of it as can even extend Internet access to ‘Windows in your back pocket’ nearby colleagues just by sharing because it puts an entire PC the network name and password. experience onto a USB drive that can be booted from any certified
29 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows makes it easy to conduct business away from the office, offering a wide range of wireless connection options that meet your needs for convenience and security.
30 Windows 8.1 Product Guide In a world where cloud, mobility, Windows also includes new Enterprise-grade and bring-your-own-device native fingerprint-based biometric security and factors make security more options for authenticating user important than ever, Windows identities. This includes support for authentication delivers enterprise-grade security a new generation of touch-based with improved data protection, sensors, a common enrollment new authentication options, and experience that works with new features that make devices less and existing swipe-based sensors, susceptible to malware threats. and support for the biometric authentication of users’ Windows If there’s company data on a lost, identity. Instead of typing stolen or user-owned device, passwords, just touch to log in, Windows provides features for buy apps from the Windows Store, protecting that data against or access apps or specific app unauthorized access. Remote functionality. business data removal provides an extra level of control over To increase protection against company data on user-owned malware, Windows has a number devices by allowing IT of new features including an administrators to conduct a update to Internet Explorer that remote wipe while leaving analyzes site code before personal user data untouched. malicious code can be executed. That’s in addition to Device An update to Windows Defender Encryption now included on all includes network behavior Windows editions and enabled monitoring for detecting automatically on devices that meet suspicious app behavior. Windows InstantGo requirements. For is also now protected by the power organizations with additional of the cloud: a cloud-based service management and security needs, that conducts remote malware BitLocker protection can be added checks is capable of identifying to devices running Windows 8.1 highly sophisticated threats Pro or Enterprise. including those designed to avoid detection by Windows and anti- malware software.
31 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows 8.1 represents a great opportunity for app builders. Windows for From productivity apps built with proven technology for the Windows desktop, to immersive mobile apps and games available app builders in the Windows Store, no other platform has the same range of experiences as Windows.
Windows makes it easy to optimize your apps for a mobile, touch-first experience. Apps are scalable for running smoothly on a variety of hardware from 7-inch tablets to screens 40 inches and larger. The Windows Store has been redesigned as a global app marketplace with an emphasis on discoverability and monetization. The result is a platform with a unique range of opportunities, so app builders can harness their creativity and capitalize on revenue potential when building their best apps for Windows.
32 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows 8.1 has made take advantage of the great new Proven investments in key areas like features in the Windows Store. technologies and media, networking, and DirectX And Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 – and the payoff is a better app makes it easy to achieve your industry-leading platform with greater capabilities creative vision with a toolset that tools and more options. Windows leads the industry in features and developers have a range of choices ease-of-use. in programming language, deployment model, and distribution method. From HTML5 and JavaScript for cutting-edge web apps, to Microsoft DirectX 11.2 and C++ for high-performance games, to C# and XAML or WPF for business and productivity apps, we have you covered. Deploy your app to the Windows desktop and distribute it however you choose, or certify your mobile apps and
Through robust yet easy-to-use tools and templates from Microsoft, app builders can quickly build amazing, immersive experiences for Windows.
33 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Take advantage of the powerful With GPU scaling, you can New low-level Direct3D Trim APIs Shaders can now be compiled and Build the best hardware inside a PC by dynamically resize your frame enable more efficient resource linked at runtime. Shaders can be games for the harnessing the power of DirectX buffer to keep your 3D graphics management. procedurally composed inside 11.2 to create the most advanced smooth, while hardware multi- your app, linked, and run without best hardware games on any platform. With plane overlay support keeps your You can use a map default buffer separate HLSL files. Windows 8.1, we’ve made some gorgeous 2D art and interfaces operation to access GPU default changes to make your DirectX looking their best in native buffers directly from your app (if games look even better and run resolution. supported by the device) without more smoothly. the intermediate copy operation. Tiled resources help you make the most efficient use of large textures.
Windows 8.1 includes a number of changes to give DirectX games an epic level of performance, including GPU scaling for smooth 3D graphics and tiled resources for using large textures efficiently.
34 Windows 8.1 Product Guide With new advances in Additionally, more than two apps Create immersive performance and usability features, can share the screen at the same app experiences Windows 8.1 gives you a flexible time, and a single app can also use canvas for designing compelling multiple monitors. Apps can app experiences. Improved video remain open and in the and audio performance and foreground when another app is touch-first principles create an launched, sharing the screen and app-perfect environment where staying in memory. apps are fast, fluid and responsive. Several new controls, improved It all adds up to a more responsive support for high-resolution environment with more monitors, and composition opportunities to do your best enhancements also make for development work on Windows. smoother animation and effects.
Live tiles on the Start screen start working as soon as the app is installed, and users have more tile-sizing options available. Users can determine the on-screen sizes of Windows 8.1 apps, with a larger minimum width than snapped apps had on Windows 8. The default minimum is 500px in Windows 8.1, but developers can specify 320px to have their apps snap smaller. Existing desktop or Windows Store apps continue to work as they did in Windows 8.
35 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows provides the tools you need to make it easy for your app to run flawlessly on a wide variety of devices – build once, and then deploy your apps to any supported form factor.
36 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows gives you the tools and revenue opportunities to create a successful business.
37 Windows 8.1 Product Guide The Windows Store offers global The Windows Store offers the Additionally, limitations on in-app Reach more reach to more than 200 markets; More best terms for app builders in the purchase catalog size have been app lovers on more markets means more opportunities industry. Fees start at the industry removed, enabling large catalogs potential customers. The store norm of 30% of app sales, but are that you can continue to build more devices handles financial transactions and for revenue reduced to only 20% after an app over time. The Windows Store currency conversions, making it reaches $25,000 in sales. More commerce platform also now easy for you to get paid for sales currencies are now supported, offers support for consumable around the world. giving you access to more than in-app purchases that can be 200 global markets. New for purchased by a customer, used, From the smallest tablets and Windows 8.1, Windows gift cards and then purchased again. And if convertibles to high-powered PCs can be applied to a user’s account you use a third-party commerce and All-in-Ones, Windows 8.1 for use across Windows Store, system for in-app purchases, you offers customers a range of great Windows Phone Marketplace and can keep up to 100% of that devices and customization options Xbox Live Marketplace. revenue because the Windows at many price points, so people can Store doesn’t charge fees for find the PC or tablet that’s just right third-party transactions. for them. With a broad reach across a diverse range of connected devices, Windows 8.1 provides a powerful opportunity to reach a large and engaged user base. Windows gift cards allow users to make purchases in a wider variety of To make it easy for your app to markets, and cards can be used across Windows run flawlessly on all those devices, Store, Windows Phone Marketplace and Xbox we provide the tools you need for Live Marketplace. app design, development and deployment. Build it once, and then deploy your apps to any supported form factor. And once someone downloads your app, it’s associated with their Microsoft account, so it’s ready for them on all their Windows 8.1 devices.
38 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows 8 introduced the recommendation and relevance As an app builder, you’ll be able Let the Windows world to the Windows Store for system to help users find new to access detailed app analytics, Store work for downloading and discovering favorites. And with Windows 8.1, from how customers are finding great apps. The Windows Store apps are updated automatically by your app, to the types of people you continues to evolve with discovery, default, so you can feel confident downloading it, to detailed merchandising and monetization that most users have the newest financial reports. You can also choices that can help you grow and best version of your app. explore metrics about trends your business. throughout the Windows Store as Additionally, the Start screen a whole, so you can see what types The Windows Store is all delivers an Apps View to help of apps have been popular in about highlighting great apps and users see, find and sort their apps, different markets and use that increasing user engagement – and either alphabetically, or by most information to plan new apps or that’s reflected in the new design. frequently used. Users can also use new features. Fresh layouts and categories like Bing Smart Search to find apps ‘New & Rising’ make it easier for easily from anywhere in Windows. users to stay up-to-date on the This helps to keep the app hottest new entries to explore. experience positive and users Personalized recommendations eager to spend more time with use Bing’s advanced their apps.
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39 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Windows makes it easy to connect with others, do detailed Windows in action planning, organize files, and share documents on the go.
Whether you’re a student in class, a professional on a work project, or just want a better way to get things done, Windows provides powerful apps and services that work great together to make things happen.
40 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Exams are coming up in your As the professor starts his talk, Taking and European History course and you you’ve got two apps open side sharing class want to keep your grades high. As by side on your screen. One is a today’s lecture begins, you open textbook you’ve got open on your notes your Windows device to your Kindle app for following along in personalized Start screen, where the text, the other is the OneNote you scroll to the grouping labeled page you’ve opened for keeping “School”. This is where you’ve put notes on today’s class. The all the relevant app tiles and professor is a fast talker and it’s folders for each course, so tough trying to catch everything, everything you need is right in so you use the Record feature one place. – right in the OneNote app – to capture the full audio alongside your notes. OneNote timestamps your notes, so you can easily find the corresponding spot in the recording for cross-reference.
With OneNote, you can easily take, organize and share notes; a great Record Audio feature captures and timestamps audio for easy reference.
41 Windows 8.1 Product Guide The professor frequently refers across your files, apps, the cloud, Today’s lecture is over and you’re to the textbook in his lecture. and the web. Even if the professor headed to the library when a text Windows apps are designed to is absent-minded about the source message pops up on your phone. work well together, so you can of the data, you can quickly find It’s a fellow student who missed easily cut and paste from the the right reference – and share it the class and is hoping you’ll share textbook app into your OneNote to your Reading List for later notes from the lecture. You can do file. You’ve saved a lot of things to viewing. better than that: because OneNote before this, but with everything is in SkyDrive, you can SkyDrive providing 7 GB of free access the notes – and the full cloud space, you can save a lot of lecture audio – from the cloud files for easy access from anywhere, without even a pause because it even from a friend’s laptop. syncs automatically. “Here’s the whole lecture,” you write back. During the lecture, the professor “Get well soon!” refers to a recent incident he read in the newspaper…or was it mentioned in the textbook? Unlike other search engines, Bing Smart Search pulls in returns from
Apps work together so you can share across apps, like sharing an article from the CNN app (seen here) to your Reading List or OneNote for later reading.
42 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Experience Windows at its best Smart, well-planned action is Planning a when you’re pulling a lot of things what Bing Travel is all about. Area fantastic vacation together, like when planning a info, top attractions, things to do, sun-and-fun vacation in San Diego hotels, and more – this app is from your spot on the couch with made for how we plan trips. your Windows tablet. Some of the best features are 360° panoramas that feel like you’re Most trips begin with research, right in the harbor or on the beach, and Bing Smart Search gives you and reviews from Fodor’s, a beautiful display of the most Frommer’s, Lonely Planet, and Trip relevant and popular information Advisor – all on a single screen. So about San Diego: attractions, you can easily confirm that there’s stunning photos, and one-click something of interest – beaches, access to Bing Maps and Travel parks, or nightlife – for everyone in apps. With much more than a list the family. of links, you’ve got an organized and aggregated set of results ready to take action.
Bing Smart Search Find a destination, plan Results for “san diego” conducts a universal your itinerary, share search across your files, information, and move Attractions the cloud, and the web, easily between apps. You
Balboa Park and displays results in an can snap two apps 72°F intelligent, organized alongside each other, or, Sunny way, based on what is depending on your
San Diego Zoo most popular with monitor, open up to four 1.33 million (2011) searchers. apps side by side* at the Population same time.
SeaWorld San Diego View on map Maps
Explore city Travel San Diego Zoo Safari Park Read about Wikipedia
San Diego Bay Marina
San Diego
Data from: Accuweather · Wikipedia · Freebase *Depending on your screen resolution.
43 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Trips involve a lot of logistics and and map it to see everything that’s Research, selection, booking, Windows shines at coordination. close by. The last thing before sharing, approvals – you’ve just When to go? Launch the Weather booking is to get the OK from the handled everything in a few app to bring up a side-by-side loved ones you’ll be traveling with. minutes using apps that window of rain and temp averages You can easily email the travel coordinate with each other. If you showing the best month details (hotel, location, and tried this on any other tablet, (September) to visit. How to get attractions) to them so you can you’d be jumping through sites there? Launch the Maps app for a finalize the plans. and apps trying to manage all the side-by-side window of driving logistics through a browser. distance and time – and easily Now, you’re ready to book. share the route through the Top booking sites – Kayak.com, All that’s left is to tell the People app to your favorite social hotels.com, Priceline, Orbitz, and grandparents. Open the Skype networking sites. One swipe opens others – come up in your browser, app to deliver the news face to your email and the details load and your preferences are face. The grandparents are so automatically – no cutting and automatically transferred, so you thrilled, they might join you for a pasting. can reserve your room without few days. re-entering the details. Now, where to stay? Evaluate hotels by date, amenity, price, class,
Bing Travel is designed Easily book hotels for how people plan by launching your trips, providing info favorite booking site about top attractions right from Bing Travel; and reviews from top the multi-tasking feature sites like Fodor’s and in Windows lets you Lonely Planet; easily have more than one app access Maps for driving open at once, even on directions and Mail for tablets. sharing your plans.
44 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Having fun and getting things Mixing some done are top priorities whether it’s downtime with a work week or a summer holiday. As personal and professional lives some uptime are combined in new ways, Windows has the apps and services to help everyone stay connected with the world, keep the kids entertained, and stay in touch with the office.
Vacation time is here and you’re headed to San Diego with the family. But there are some critical projects going on at work, and you need to stay connected to the office while away. Can you count on your Windows tablet to keep you productive while being a great travel companion for the whole crew? Yes, you can. So there’s no Your Windows tablet need to lug the work laptop along. is a great coworker and travel companion, keeping you productive on the go without you needing to take your work laptop along.
45 Windows 8.1 Product Guide After a couple hours on the road, A few hours later, it’s time for the kids are fidgeting in their seats lunch and a quick check of work – but your Windows tablet can be a email on your phone. Urgent talented entertainer. You’ve set up message from your boss: she needs individual user accounts so the edits to a board presentation by kids can each sign in to their own 3:00 P.M. Many tablets are not individual settings and apps. After suited for real productivity, but talking it over, they decide to with the full Office* suite on your watch a movie together, but they Windows tablet, you can click on could also play games they’ve the link in the email and start downloaded, or listen to music, working directly in the PowerPoint and you can know that all your file your boss started. You review content and settings are kept her edits, make your own changes, separate and safeguarded. and save the update, with no need for attachments and no version confusion. Thanks to Direct Access and Work Folders, you’re easily connected to the corporate network from any Wi-Fi connection.
Once someone else Windows makes it easy signs in, their own to stay in touch with the personalized Start office from the road: you screen appears. So the can connect to the kids can have their own corporate network using content and settings, Direct Access and get to and it’s all kept safe and your files through Work separate from yours. Folders.
*Included with Windows RT 8.1; may require a separate purchase with Windows 8.1.
46 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Back on the road, you’ve reached the one you like best and you’re the coast near San Diego just as back on the road. the day is winding down. A shout from the back seat – one of the At the hotel later that evening, kids has spotted a stunning view you power on your Windows over the water. You pull over, and tablet to check the photos you’ve the 8-year-old holds the tablet up taken along the way. That fantastic just as the sun dips into the sea. sunset is a great one to share, so He’s captured the perfect shot – a you access the editing tools to full panorama of sea, sky, and land crop the photo just right. With a – because the built-in Camera app quick swipe to Share to the People makes it easy. You can take a app, you send an email, or post to photo instantly from the Lock your social network: “Amazing screen without having to enter a sunset on our trip to CA!” password, and you can get a rapid- fire series of shots called a photo loop* so you know that one of those photos is that picture- perfect moment. You quickly pick
The Camera and Photos apps are great for taking and editing photos and, because Windows apps work so well together, you can easily share them in email or post to your social networks.
*Requires special hardware
47 Windows 8.1 Product Guide As the evolution of the Windows 8 Check out the new tablets and Windows: in sync vision, Windows 8.1 offers the Find out more PCs running Windows 8.1 and with the way you great devices, essential apps and about the new Windows RT 8.1 and find the one cloud-based services designed for that’s right for you. live – and ready the way you live. Take advantage Windows today windows.microsoft.com/shop for you right now of the best hardware designs and technologies, enjoy the fun and Get information about upgrading freedom of personalizing your your system to Windows 8.1. experience, and then let Windows windows.microsoft.com/upgrade bring everything together so apps and services interact intelligently Learn more about using key and beautifully with each other features in Windows 8.1. and stay in sync with you. windows.microsoft.com/how-to
48 Windows 8.1 Product Guide Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to Thank you any information described in this document. Some apps or features described in this document may not be available in all markets.
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