Presenter: Corinne Hoisington Presentation Date: 10/23/13 Join us for the coming out party of Windows 8.1 builds on the bold vision and solid foundation of Windows 8 and includes many great new features for your students allowing them to stay productive and engaged. Windows 8.1 has tossed out the concept of icons and moved to dramatic touch-centric tiles with a new user interface. Students are showing up in every classroom in the world with this new Windows 8 PC – do you know how to assist them? So many new features such as geo-location services, Windows apps, cloud computing tie-in, and multitasking enhancements change the very mission of what an operating system can do! Find out what’s new with search, apps, personalization, SkyDrive, Internet Explorer 11, and more!
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1. Meet Windows 8.1 Professor Corinne Hoisington Central
Virginia Community College Dial-in #: 1 (800) 774-6070 Participant
code: 9417919#
2. Corinnes Books 3. Huge News Starting on December 1, 2013,
this new Microsoft program, allows any academic institution that
licenses Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for staff
and faculty to provide Office 365 ProPlus to its students for free.
That includes the full Office365 suite -Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, InfoPath, and Access. So if a school
buys it for their faculty, their students get it for free. 4.
Windows 8.1 Released October 17, 2013 5. PERSONALIZE 6. New Start
Screen Functionality New Apps 7. Customize the Start Screen 8.
Universal Search 9. Better SkyDrive Integration 10. More Snap
Features If you have a 2,560 1,440 resolution or higher monitor,
you can have four apps up at once 11. Start Button Returns, Sort of
Desktop Start Button Open Start Screen Right-Click Access to Common
Functions 12. Boot Directly to Desktop 13. More Lock Screen Options
14. Refreshed Xbox Music 30 Million Tracks 15. 3-D PRINTING SUPPORT
16. Corinne Hoisington [email protected]
