Week in Review: March 31st

by andrewbares

Apr 7, 2014 at 19:00 GMT4 years ago

Welcome to the Week in Review, where we highlight the top stories of the week.

WP 8.1 features officially released

Action Center: notification center accessed from top
Cortana voice assistant
Lock Screen Themes
Third column of live tiles for everyone
Word Flow: just like Swype keyboard

Universal apps for 8.1

Code base between WP and Windows is even closer
Devs can offer a single app which runs on both WP and Windows, and only needs to be purchased once

Cortana US-only for quite awhile

Microsoft is only supporting US right now, and hasn’t said when other regions will be added
However, Cortana can be accessed by just changing your regional settings, as long as you use English of course

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