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CNET News - Microsoft demos Office, PowerPoint apps across PC and smartphone

2015-01-21
to get a full view of the kinds of things that we're putting on phones and small tablets and today it's not even a complete view but to get the full view I need to talk to you about universal apps because we are building a wide family of universal apps that will round out the experience on phones small tablets and PCs and what we're doing is creating a family of apps that will be built in that will give our customers everything they need for modern productivity so I'm going to show you a series of these apps I'm going to show them to you on the phone and the pc and i want you to think about how they make the experience rationalized and easy as you go from device to device and they offer that mobility of experience that Terry was describing the first one I'm going to focus on is office word excel and powerpoint will be included in Windows 10 on phones and small tablets and they're going to deliver a consistent highly rich and highly complete office experience on those devices but I am going to show you a PowerPoint and so once again you'll see I open PowerPoint it's that familiar office look with the recent list right there I'm going to open a very large and complex PowerPoint presentation here we go and I want to point out that recent document lists it does Rome from device to device from version of office to version of office so if I'm using full win32 office on my pc and editing a document in my onedrive or onedrive for business that recent list roams across devices when I open up this PowerPoint presentation i want to show you once again here on the bottom of the screen we brought the familiar office ribbon right to the phones at bar experience and i can switch here to transition view to slide show view or to review view just as I did on the phone but I'm not going to do that instead i want to show you how great a powerpoint presentation can look when it's projected using any of the recent phones which have hugely powerful processors and very fixed parts so in this case i'm going to pan through this and you'll see watch the screen how smooth the animations and transitions are on slide animation I'm going to keep going you'll see the hardware accelerated slide transitions and then again a slide animation and once again hardware accelerated transitions slide animation our outlook team has been working on a new universal app version of outlook mail and outlook calendar which will be on the phone tablets and PCs you'll see here's that same code it's literally the same code written to our universal app platform I was showing it to on the phone and here it is on the PC it looks very similar on the PC it has this personalizable image which I've set to my son and I let me open the calendar and you saw on the pc i did this in a familiar way just by clicking the calendar right down there in the bottom something lots of Outlook users are accustomed to and here you can see the calendar is rich and attractive it's familiar it's high performance I can scroll around all these items on any device that you own even cross-platform devices phones where you're taking pictures we have a 1 Drive app and its built-in on Windows devices that uploads your images to onedrive on the PC we're sinking your images down from onedrive to the pc so they're available locally offline as cloud this photo app is aggregating together all of those photos from all of those devices and giving you one simple view of your collection three more apps i'm going to show you i'm going to go even faster so you get a sense of overview the first one is our people app which we're implementing again as a universal app one time across these devices it a grits all the people you care about across social networks and it lets you perform quick actions like making a call or sending a message or doing a Skype video call next up our music experience which we're continuing to evolve across all these devices and what you'll see here is how we're using the cloud to add a song to a playlist and then it shows up magically on all your devices that's because in about a month or two months we're going to add support to our system for you to put your music collection in onedrive and have your collection stored in the cloud so you can make changes to your playlists or to your collection on device and they're automatically reflected on all your devices next up i want you to see our maps experience which starts with some cortana integration cortana has recognized the traffic is slow so you could open the Maps app on your PC find an alternate route send it to your phone and then when you use the turn-by-turn directions to drive somewhere and you arrive you can have Cortana remember where you parked your car and then when your events / she's there to help you find where you parked so that is a quick tour of our family of universal apps
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