Windows Phone 8.1 Evaluation: Changes in "reinvent"

Microsoft recently released the developer Preview version of Windows Phone8.1 (hereinafter referred to as WP8.1), the new version than WP 8 has a considerable improvement, Cortana voice assistant and Notification Center of the addition, photo applications and browser improvements, Support for corporate users, and so on, is a feeling of being reborn, and from then on, Microsoft has increased its emphasis on mobile operating systems and even exposed its ambitions to compete with Android and iOS. American Science and Technology website ArsTechnica also in the first time to the WP 8.1 evaluation, the following is the main content of the evaluation. For Microsoft, the main problem now is not how to develop a good operating system, but how to gain a bigger share of the mobile OS market, where iOS and Android dominate. Objectively speaking, the current market of WP mobile phone whether in performance or function is a good product, but the current WP ecosystem in the main is the low-end mobile phones, and the real iphone 5s and Galaxy S5 and other high-end mobile phones as a rival WP equipment is still extremely scarce. Thankfully, we finally saw Microsoft come up with a good operating system--WP 8.1, although the number and quality of the WP platform is still not comparable to Android and iOS, but at least WP in Microsoft's nurturing has grown into a relatively complete ecosystem, It also provides a third option outside of Android and iOS, and WP 8.1 is not disappointing, at least because it has the power to compete directly with the other two platforms. Cortana voice assistant Cortana was originally the main player in the Xbox game Halo, while Microsoft described WP 8.1 's Cortana voice assistant as a more personalized personal assistant, Cortana integrated location-based services, Natural language recognition and context intelligent processing, such as advanced technology, but also has a certain degree of machine learning, to the user's use habits continue to record and analyze, and at the right time to provide users with active help. Clearly, Cortana is Microsoft's new weapon against Siri and Google Now, which users can use to create a time table, set reminders, send mail, and so on, and, of course, proactively push for users with relevant information and reminders, and so on, as Google Now does.