Samsung equipped applications from Microsoft (Skype, OneDrive and OneNote) already last year Galaxy S7 and last year's Galaxy S6, but this year the influence of the Redmond company on the South Korean giant is much greater. Introduced a few days ago Galaxy The S8 will not only be sold by Samsung, but also by the software giant Microsoft, directly in its brick-and-mortar stores in the United States.
Samsung Galaxy The S8 Microsoft Edition will be sold in Microsoft Stores, will be equipped with a large batch of applications from Microsoft and will also be offered with special services. At first glance, it will be ordinary Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8+, but as soon as the new owner takes the phone home, unpacks it from the box and connects to a Wi-Fi network, the phone turns into a Microsoft edition.
The best Microsoft applications such as Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), OneDrive, Outlook and even the virtual assistant Cortana will be downloaded to the phone, despite the fact that Samsung will offer its own Bixby on the new flagships, as well as Google Assistant. "With this customization, customers get the best in class that Microsoft has to offer right now," their spokesman said.
Special edition Galaxy But the S8 is not the only thing that Samsung and Microsoft have prepared for us together this year. Their joint work is i the new DeX docking station, which can turn a phone into a computer (even if, as a result, only for office work). Microsoft has developed a system Windows Continuum, which works basically exactly the same as Desktop eXperience from the South Koreans. So Samsung borrowed the idea and improved it according to its own. And maybe that's why it might seem like a desktop environment Galaxy The S8 looks pretty much like when plugged into DeX Windows. In reality, of course, it is Android.
