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!

1. Meet Windows 8.1
Professor Corinne Hoisington
Central Virginia Community College
Dial-in #: 1 (800) 774-6070
Participant code: 9417919#

2. Corinne’s 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.

5. Windows 8.1
Released October 17, 2013

8. PERSONALIZE

9. New Start Screen Functionality – New Apps

10. Customize the Start Screen

11. Universal Search

12. Better SkyDrive Integration

13. More Snap Features
If you have a 2,560 1,440 resolution or higher monitor, you can have four apps up at once

14. Start Button Returns, Sort of…
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Desktop Start Button – Open Start Screen
Right-Click – Access to Common Functions

15. Boot Directly to Desktop

16. More Lock Screen Options

18. Refreshed Xbox Music – 30 Million Tracks

19. 3-D PRINTING SUPPORT

20. Corinne Hoisington
hoisingtonc@cvcc.vccs.edu