Announced that Microsoft's WinHEC 2016 conference

Today, in the Chinese city of Shenzhen held a conference Windows Hardware Engineering Community in 2016, where Microsoft has surprised several significant announcements. As for the main Windows 10.

Although Conference WinHEC is focused mainly on the development, this year it was made some news that may be of interest and ordinary users. First of all it concerns the company's new steps to conquer the mobile market. But let everything in order.

Mixed reality in every home

Microsoft has once again confirmed its intention to promote the hardware and software tools for creating in our homes mixed reality (mixed reality). Company executives have high hopes for Chinese production capacity, which should fully meet the demand for low-cost and high-quality peripherals. With Microsoft for its part will provide software support for leaving the following year Windows 10 Creators Update.

project Evo

This ambitious new project to improve the capabilities of electronic devices to perceive and analyze information, and interact with the environment. To implement Microsoft teamed up with the company Intel, which is to provide hardware support for new features in their products.

We are talking primarily about speech recognition technologies and visual images, improving the artificial Assistant intelligence Cortana and the release of the new home device, surpasses the capabilities of Amazon Echo and Google Home.

Windows 10 will fully work on ARM-devices

And last, but most important news from the conference WinHEC 2016: Microsoft company began extensive cooperation with the manufacturer Qualcomm processors. From the stage sounded promise that very soon on devices with ARM architecture will be easy to use Windows 10 operating system.

Moreover, the developers promise that it will be possible to run any x86-apps on the new processor Qualcomm Snapdragon. Programs do not even require any alteration, because they will work in the embedded emulator. In support of the work of the conference demonstrated the Adobe Photoshop, Office, and the game World of Tank Blitz on your device with Snapdragon 820.

This means that companies have learned from past mistakes. Previously Microsoft tried to follow the example of Apple and built completely closed ecosystem, all parts of which were controlled from Redmond. Now Microsoft executives trying to take an example from Google and make its products accessible and open as possible. If they manage to win the support of the Chinese producers, that soon we will cover a wave of Chinese gadgets that will run on Windows.