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Judson Althoff joined Microsoft to lead the company’s North American sales and marketing staff. It’s a lot to keep track of, to put it mildly, so he asked for regular reports from all of his teams.

The sales reports that arrived presented information in a variety of views, with metrics varying from one report to the next. It wasn’t clear how marketing made an impact on sales, and Althoff couldn’t get a clear picture of what was happening across his organization.

So he gathered up his leadership team last spring and asked a question: Why isn’t there one experience that lets me see every element of the business?

His question ultimately led to the creation of Windows Apportals, a set of mini Start screens that let users pin essential data and apps and access them in one place. Their organizational power comes from Windows 8.1’s nested file directory structure—a feature that no other mobile operating system (OS) has, says Grad Conn, U.S. Central Marketing and Operations lead at Microsoft.

Windows 8.1 provides the organizational power behind Apportals, a set of mini Start screens that are helping businesses fight app fatigue.

Althoff’s challenge—to find clarity amidst a sea of data and apps—is shared by people around the globe, no matter what their role, Conn says. The ongoing app explosion has led to app fatigue. The info we need is squirreled away somewhere within that endless scrolling tide of apps; finding it can be frustrating.

Windows 8.1 provides the key to the answer. In a madcap, six-week “sprint,” the taskforce that answered Althoff’s challenge discovered that Windows 8.1’s architecture could help businesses organize critical apps and information for virtually any role. They built an Apportal called the Sales Productivity Solution (SPS). It let Althoff quickly drill down and see everything happening across his org in one place. He demoed SPS just a few weeks later at a company event, which got people excited.

It’s not hard to see why, says Praveen Palepu, program manager lead for Marketing Operations and one of the employees who helped drive the sprint. He calls Apportals the best showcase around for Windows 8. “This is the killer app for Windows 8,” he says. “No other mobile OS can do this.”

The power of Apportals stems from their simplicity. Apportals are made up of Tile Groupings, similar to the main Windows 8 Start screen. The Tile Groupings in an Apportal are composed of “Grid Tiles.” They’re similar to Live Tiles in that they can display streaming information, but they are not repositionable by the user.

As a result, organizations can create line-of-business apps and consumer apps that are composed of collections of apps, applications, pinned links and embedded apps—all within a single Apportal. And there are no restrictions on what you can add. If it can run in Windows 8.1, it can run in an Apportal.

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Windows Phone 8.1

Windows Phone's new Cortana voice-activated digital assistant blends the personality of Siri with the behavioral learning of Google Now. The OS's unique home screen, with live app tiles that are both easier to touch and more informative than the other OS's icons, becomes even more appealing. Wi-Fi Sense and Storage Sense are useful, unique tools. With all these changes, Microsoft has removed most of the barriers to Windows Phone's widespread adoption.  

       Cortana The aim of Cortana, Microsoft's digital-assistant answer to Apple's Siri and Google Now, is to incorporate only the best features of both. Cortana, based on the female AI character in the Halo videogames, also replaces the woefully limited search features of Windows Phone 8. The previous search functionality was just a Bing Web search. Cortana can actually search within the phone for settings and apps (and run them). But Cortana is so much more than just phone search.

Cortana will also (with your permission) scan your email to, for example, find flight reservations and notify you if there's traffic or a flight delay. Cortana gives you more control over privacy than Google Now does, because you decide what personal information to share with her. You do this by entering your interests, locations, and relationships in your "notebook." Microsoft got this idea of the personal assistant keeping a notebook from actual human personal assistant professionals.

What is icloud

iCloud is one of the biggest parts of iOS 5.
While we are excited about iCloud, we keep hearing, “What is iCloud?” and “Why is it called a cloud?”
Have no fear, we have everything you need to know about iCloud right here, so that you’re ready for iOS 5 on October 12th.
Unlike many of the new iOS 5 features, iCloud brings most of the functionality to both Windows and Mac users, including the Photo Stream functionality that many users will get the most use out of.

In addition to keeping your content in sync, you can also back up your iPhone or iPad to the cloud when you plug it in and connect to WiFi. This means that you’ll have a current backup almost every time you plug in for a recharge.
Apple chose to call this service iCloud, a play on the traditional “cloud” services. The “Cloud” in tech terms is basically referring to keeping your data on a remote server that is available anywhere. We like to say it lives in the cloud, as in it’s right there, you just have to reach out and grab it.