Following on the heels of Build 2013’s Wednesday release of the Windows 8.1 Preview, Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president and chief evangelist for Developer Platform Evangelism, took the stage on the second day of the conference and announced the availability of the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Release Preview. This extends Windows 8.1 capabilities and provides more flexibility to meet the needs of industry devices.
Through onstage partner demos, he showed how the common core of the Windows platform enables developers to build compelling apps and experiences spanning all kinds of devices and services.
Guggenheimer chose the Avis Select and Go app running on a Windows Embedded 8 Industry tablet and a Windows Embedded 8 Handheld device to illustrate the opportunity for developers to capitalize on the shared Windows codebase and enable industry-specific branding, peripheral support (such as mag stripe readers and barcode scanners), and lockdown capabilities.
Find out more about the demos in this press release and go the Windows Embedded site to register the download of the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro Release Preview.
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Athima Chansanchai
Microsoft News Center Staff