SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Thursday, at
the Windows Hardware Engineering Community event (WinHEC) in
Shenzhen, China, Microsoft Corp.
announced new opportunities for global partners to innovate with
Windows 10. Terry Myerson, executive
vice president, Windows and Devices Group, Microsoft, was joined on
stage in Shenzhen by Navin Shenoy, senior vice president and general
manager for the Client Computing Group, Intel Corporation, and
Cristiano Amon, executive vice
president, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., and president of Qualcomm
CDMA Technologies. Together, the companies showcased new ways for
partners to build modern devices that will empower the next
generation of creators.
"I feel energized to be among this community of hardware
engineering creators at WinHEC, who are building the next
generation of modern, secure PCs that support innovative
mixed-reality, gaming and mobile experiences," Myerson said. "With
the Windows 10 Creators Update and our partnerships with Qualcomm
and Intel, we can build technology that serves all of us by
ensuring there are devices for the creator in each of us."
A new wave of modern PCs
Microsoft announced its latest collaboration with Intel,
code-named "Project Evo." With "Project Evo," Microsoft and Intel
will deliver all-new ways for devices to light up with the latest
in advanced security, artificial intelligence and Cortana, mixed
reality, and gaming. Through this collaboration, devices of the
future will leverage Microsoft and Intel innovations, including the
following:
- Far-field speech communications so you can ask Cortana a
question or play a song from across the room.
- The latest security capabilities to protect devices from
malware and hacking threats, advances in biometric authentication
with Windows Hello, sophisticated insights from Microsoft's
Intelligent Security Graph, and additional world-class security
intelligence and analytics from Intel.
- Mixed-reality experiences for everyone through affordable PCs
and head-mounted displays (HMDs) that blend the physical and
virtual realities in ways no other platform can.
- Gaming innovations like eSports, game broadcasting, and support
for 4K, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Wide Color Gamut (WCG), spatial
audio, and Xbox controllers with native Bluetooth.
Together, our work will extend these experiences to hundreds of
millions of PC and HMD customers and raise the bar for what's
possible with Windows PCs.
Making mixed reality mainstream
With the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft is accelerating
the availability of mixed reality around the world with a range of
powerful and affordable devices. Today, the company announced
several new ways to make mixed reality mainstream in 2017:
- Submitted Microsoft HoloLens for government approval in
China for availability to
developers and commercial customers here in the first half of
2017.
- Shared the specifications that we co-developed with Intel for
PCs that will power the first headsets capable of mixed reality.
HMDs from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo will be available next
year.
- Joining these partners, 3Glasses, the leading China-based hardware developer for HMDs, will
bring the Windows 10 experience to its S1 device in the first half
of 2017, reaching more than 5 million monthly active customers in
China.
- Customers will gain access to mixed-reality content:
- More than 20,000 universal Windows apps in the catalog
- 3-D objects from the web using Microsoft Edge to drag and drop
into their physical world
- Immersive WebVR content via Microsoft Edge
- 360-degree videos available for the first time in the Microsoft
Movies & TV app
- As well, HMD developer kits will become available to developers
at the Game Developers Conference in San
Francisco.
Windows with cellular connectivity
In future Windows 10 updates, Microsoft will enable connectivity
that is always within reach. Customers will be able to easily buy
data directly from the Windows Store and be in control of how they
use Wi-Fi and cellular networks, consume data, and manage costs.
Partners will be able to build always-connected devices without
hindering form-factor design. Specifically, partners can take
advantage of eSIM technology to build devices without an exposed
SIM slot, making it easier for people to activate a data plan right
on their device.
To deliver on customers' growing need to create on the go,
Microsoft announced that Windows 10 is coming to ARM architecture
through a partnership with Qualcomm. For the first time, customers
will be able to experience the Windows they know with the apps,
peripherals and enterprise capabilities they require, on a truly
mobile, power-efficient, always-connected cellular PC.
Hardware partners will be able to build a range of new Qualcomm
Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs that run x86 Win32 and universal
Windows apps, including Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office and
popular Windows games.
These new devices are expected to be in market as early as next
year.
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productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
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