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WinHEC 2016: Microsoft empowers new development opportunities in mixed reality, gaming and cellular PCs
WinHEC 2016: Microsoft empowers new development opportunities in mixed reality, gaming and cellular PCs
Press release, December 9; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Friday 9 December 2016]
At the Windows Hardware Engineering Community event (WinHEC) in Shenzhen, China, Microsoft has 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 and Cristiano Amon, executive vice president, Qualcomm Technologies, 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.
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 communication so users 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 e-sports, game broadcasting, and support for Ultra HD, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Wide Color Gamut (WCG), spatial audio, and Xbox controllers with native Bluetooth.
Together, Intel and Microsoft's 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.
Microsoft has submitted its HoloLens for government approval in China for availability to developers and commercial customers here in the first half of 2017 and shared the specifications that it co-developed with Intel for PCs that will power the first headsets capable of mixed reality.
HMDs from Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, HP and Lenovo will be available next year.
3Glasses, a 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 five million monthly active customers in China.
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.