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Microsoft plays the attack to regain lost ground. It launches Windows 8.1, available for free from now on preview: The operating system will be able to print in 3D, will be in great demand the return of the ‘Start’ button and it will be integrated with Bing search engine, with Skype and with Skydrive . Steve Ballmer, the CEO of the Redmond company, introduces the news from the stage of the developer conference held in San Francisco. While running on the network news of a new version of Xbox Music that Redmond is expected to launch soon.

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The conference is an important event in which Microsoft once again demonstrates its desire to push on Mobile: Facebook is in fact creating a Windows application, an initiative that could increase the appeal of products Windows. And the store of the app is taking off. “Windows Store is close to 100,000 applications,” says Ballmer, explaining to developers in Microsoft’s efforts to room software faster. Ballmer shows the new smartphones and tablets that will use the new operating system and announced the arrival among the app Flipboard, the application that allows users to form a DIY newspaper with news from the internet and social networks.

On stage with Ballmer also the corporate vice president of Windows, Julie Larson-Green. “With Windows 8 we have built a new Windows. It was an ambitious vision with Windows 8.1 and we finished, “highlights Larson-Green, stating that Windows 8.1 is” ??an important step. ” But the news of Microsoft have gone even beyond Windows 8.1. The company has presented the new platform as well Bing and the new look of Windows Store, “completely revised to best reach customers and connect them more effectively and quickly to the app they want.” The virtual store is indeed growing opportunities for app and taking into account individual preferences, allowing you to discover what is most interesting: “The list of app shows a new layout for better navigation.”

All news that offer new opportunities for developers to build and monetize their apps. And on the day of the Conference of the developers in San Francisco is a rumor running on the network. How Google and Apple, Microsoft, chasing users, would be focusing on the field of streaming music with a new version of Xbox Music. According to reports The Verge, the Redmond company will be launching very soon the service in the web version, making it more easily accessible to users. Until now, in fact, the music streaming service from Microsoft, was born eight months ago, is only accessible through the operating system Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox 360 video game console. With the online version will be accessible from any browser and instead will compete with other platforms such as Deezer streaming music, Napster, Spotify and Pandora.