What’s new?
Windows 10 Mobile empowers you to do great work by providing a consistent experience across phones, tablets, and PCs; pre-installed Office1apps for superior collaboration and communication; enterprise-grade security to help protect against modern threats; and uncompromising management of both corporate and personal devices.
New features include Windows apps2 that automatically adapt to different form factors and screen sizes; Microsoft Passport3 multi-factor credentials and Windows Hello4 biometrics for strong authentication; the Windows Store for Business, which allows your IT admin to create a curated set of in-house and third-party apps for mobile users; and Continuum5, which lets you connect your phone6 to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse7 to operate the phone like a PC – while still maintaining the ability to make and receive calls.
Let’s take a look at Windows 10 Mobile for your business.
Be more productive
With a consistent experience across phones, tablets, and PCs, Windows 10 Mobile empowers you to do great work on any device.
One user experience across all devices
The Windows 10 Mobile experience is consistent with any Windows 10 PC or tablet, making it easier for you to efficiently move between devices. How you interact with your device doesn’t change, as settings, data, and access rights follow you from device to device. The Start screen displays a consistent look and feel with live tiles, the web browser has the same clean, smart way to view online information, and the Action Center provides the familiar action buttons and notifications. Even Cortana7, the digital personal assistant, follows you between devices, sending reminders and scheduling meetings to help you get things done.
Windows apps
Windows apps built on the Universal Windows Platform can run on any device, automatically adapting to different screen sizes and form factors. With app consistency across devices, you get uncompromised functionality while enjoying familiar interfaces, which makes it easier to get work done when you are mobile. Developers can use familiar tools and processes, like Visual Studio, to efficiently target all device types with one application, rapidly reducing the time it takes to deliver new applications to all users and driving up overall business productivity.
Pre-installed Office
Every device with Windows 10 Mobile comes pre-installed with Office1. With a qualified Office 365 subscription8 you gain immediate access to the industry’s most feature-rich productivity suite. Office universal apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote provide a consistent experience across all device types, making it easier for you to collaborate with coworkers. Managing email and calendars is also simplified with one-swipe flagging and deletion of emails, a navigation bar for moving freely between mail and calendars, and the ability to schedule recurring meetings on the go.
Powerful collaboration services
Phones with Windows 10 Mobile work seamlessly with Office 365, making it easy for businesses to provide collaboration services to mobile users. When Office 365 is activated on phones with Windows 10 Mobile, you can instantly communicate using business-class email, online conferencing, and instant messaging services. You can collaborate with coworkers on projects through team sites or by using a corporate social network, such as Yammer. Store, share, and search for anything in your work life with OneDrive for Business9, which provides increased storage capacity for business use.
Get connected with Continuum
Continuum4 for phones lets you connect your Windows 10 Mobile device10 to a monitor, keyboard, and/or mouse using a Continuum-compatible accessory11 to operate your phone like a PC. Instead of a zoomed-in view of a phone app on a larger screen, apps scale smoothly to the larger screen of a monitor and unveil additional navigation and content that is typically viewed on a standard PC screen. When interacting with an app on the larger screen, your phone still works like a phone so calls, texts, and apps work without interrupting the app on the larger screen.
Protect against modern security threats
The enterprise-grade security included in Windows 10 Mobile meets the strictest requirements to protect corporate information and resources, without disrupting your productivity.
Simpler, more secure access to corporate resources
With Windows 10 Mobile, businesses can implement secure access to corporate resources more easily than ever before. Microsoft Passport provides strong authentication with built-in, multi-factor credentials that can be used with Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, or the Microsoft Account service to enable single sign-on. Once unlocked with a PIN or Windows Hello facial, iris, or fingerprint scan, phones with Windows 10 Mobile have instant access to all of your authorized applications and data; no need to enter passwords when accessing Microsoft Passport-supported resources.
The phone also functions as a mobile credential for signing into other PCs, making it easier to implement two-factor authentication across your organization. To ensure secure access to corporate networks, phones with Windows 10 Mobile also support always-on VPN for inspecting all mobile traffic and application-specific VPN for automatically blocking malicious applications.
Device-based threat protection
Phones with Windows 10 Mobile include hardware-based protection features, like UEFI Secure Boot and a Trusted Platform Model processor, that are designed to prevent any tampering with startup processes or user credentials. The same level of protection is extended to the platform and applications with Device Guard13, which is designed to ensure that only signed, trusted applications can run, locking out any potentially dangerous applications.
If a trusted application is somehow compromised, application sandboxing helps prevent malicious code from being able to impact the system, data, and other apps. Online threats can also be prevented with Microsoft Edge, which includes improved SmartScreen protection designed for identifying and blocking all access to phishing sites without affecting browser performance.
Protection against data leakage
Windows Information Protection on devices with Windows 10 Mobile provides data separation and containment and was designed to safeguard personal information and prevent data leakage. Unlike most other solutions on the market, Windows 10 Mobile data protection does not disrupt your experience. In fact, no separate container or folder login is required with Windows Information Protection. Instead, protection technology is embedded natively in the mobile platform, which automatically encrypts data that comes from corporate sources. Corporate policy has the ability to be set to block, log, or alert any attempt to inappropriately copy, paste, open, or save encrypted data.
Managed for continuous innovation
Windows 10 Mobile provides rich, flexible management of devices, users, and apps, helping your IT provide innovative, cost-effective mobility solutions for any scenario.
Simple, flexible provisioning
Whether corporate or personal, Windows 10 Mobile devices can quickly be provisioned with the apps, protections, and configurations that are needed to be productive while you are working mobile. You can enroll your device in a mobile device management (MDM) service with just a few clicks. Once enrolled, your IT admin can deliver the apps, Wi-Fi and VPN profiles, and policies that you need in order to access corporate resources. Your IT admin also has the ability to manually pre-configure corporate-owned devices using Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer provisioning packages.
Native mobile device management support
Windows 10 Mobile natively supports Microsoft Intune and other third-party MDM solutions, ensuring that your IT admin can extend control to all mobile devices in your organization. Using MDM, your organization can easily distribute apps and app updates to phones and tablets with Windows 10 Mobile, automatically putting the latest innovations into the hands of you and your mobile coworkers.
Devices can also be custom configured for single-purpose use, making it simple to support specialized business scenarios like retail point of sale. With dozens of built-in policy settings, Windows 10 Mobile provides granular device hardware and software controls, helping enforce rules for password complexity, encryption, Wi-Fi and VPN access, and more.
App store that’s ready for business
Windows 10 Mobile devices simplify how your IT admin provides you with access to apps, making it possible to remotely deploy, update, restrict, and retire apps. App distribution across your organization is easier, as you can use either a Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory to download apps from the Windows Store.
For even more flexibility, your organization can use the Windows Store for Business to provide a single location for downloading and assigning licenses for all the in-house and licensed third-party apps you need to do your job. AppLocker provides your IT admin with app whitelisting and blacklisting controls to prevent the downloading or running of unauthorized apps on devices across your organization.
Innovative devices for your business
Windows 10 Mobile devices are built on a platform that helps you innovate and extend the mobility of your business.
Device choice
There is a wide range of Windows 10 Mobile devices to meet your design, technical specifications, and price point requirements. And every corporate or personal device running Windows 10 Mobile delivers a consistent user, application, security, and management experience.
Seamless mobile management and security
Phones and tablets with Windows 10 Mobile include security and management controls that are powerful, but largely invisible to you. Your IT admin can accurately enforce policies for accessing corporate data and resources without impacting your productivity.
Easy app development
Developers can deliver mobile applications faster and with more consistency across all device types with Windows apps built on the Universal Windows Platform. Applications automatically adjust to phone, tablet or PC form factors and screen sizes.
Be more productive
With a consistent experience across phones, tablets, and PCs, Windows 10 Mobile empowers you to do great work on any device.
One user experience across all devices
The Windows 10 Mobile experience is consistent with any Windows 10 PC or tablet, making it easier for you to efficiently move between devices. How you interact with your device doesn’t change, as settings, data, and access rights follow you from device to device. The Start screen displays a consistent look and feel with live tiles, the web browser has the same clean, smart way to view online information, and the Action Center provides the familiar action buttons and notifications. Even Cortana7, the digital personal assistant, follows you between devices, sending reminders and scheduling meetings to help you get things done.
Windows apps
Windows apps built on the Universal Windows Platform can run on any device, automatically adapting to different screen sizes and form factors. With app consistency across devices, you get uncompromised functionality while enjoying familiar interfaces, which makes it easier to get work done when you are mobile. Developers can use familiar tools and processes, like Visual Studio, to efficiently target all device types with one application, rapidly reducing the time it takes to deliver new applications to all users and driving up overall business productivity.
Pre-installed Office
Every device with Windows 10 Mobile comes pre-installed with Office1. With a qualified Office 365 subscription8 you gain immediate access to the industry’s most feature-rich productivity suite. Office universal apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote provide a consistent experience across all device types, making it easier for you to collaborate with coworkers. Managing email and calendars is also simplified with one-swipe flagging and deletion of emails, a navigation bar for moving freely between mail and calendars, and the ability to schedule recurring meetings on the go.
Powerful collaboration services
Phones with Windows 10 Mobile work seamlessly with Office 365, making it easy for businesses to provide collaboration services to mobile users. When Office 365 is activated on phones with Windows 10 Mobile, you can instantly communicate using business-class email, online conferencing, and instant messaging services. You can collaborate with coworkers on projects through team sites or by using a corporate social network, such as Yammer. Store, share, and search for anything in your work life with OneDrive for Business9, which provides increased storage capacity for business use.
Get connected with Continuum
Continuum4 for phones lets you connect your Windows 10 Mobile device10 to a monitor, keyboard, and/or mouse using a Continuum-compatible accessory11 to operate your phone like a PC. Instead of a zoomed-in view of a phone app on a larger screen, apps scale smoothly to the larger screen of a monitor and unveil additional navigation and content that is typically viewed on a standard PC screen. When interacting with an app on the larger screen, your phone still works like a phone so calls, texts, and apps work without interrupting the app on the larger screen.
Protect against modern security threats
The enterprise-grade security included in Windows 10 Mobile meets the strictest requirements to protect corporate information and resources, without disrupting your productivity.
Simpler, more secure access to corporate resources
With Windows 10 Mobile, businesses can implement secure access to corporate resources more easily than ever before. Microsoft Passport provides strong authentication with built-in, multi-factor credentials that can be used with Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, or the Microsoft Account service to enable single sign-on. Once unlocked with a PIN or Windows Hello facial, iris, or fingerprint scan, phones with Windows 10 Mobile have instant access to all of your authorized applications and data; no need to enter passwords when accessing Microsoft Passport-supported resources.
The phone also functions as a mobile credential for signing into other PCs, making it easier to implement two-factor authentication across your organization. To ensure secure access to corporate networks, phones with Windows 10 Mobile also support always-on VPN for inspecting all mobile traffic and application-specific VPN for automatically blocking malicious applications.
Device-based threat protection
Phones with Windows 10 Mobile include hardware-based protection features, like UEFI Secure Boot and a Trusted Platform Model processor, that are designed to prevent any tampering with startup processes or user credentials. The same level of protection is extended to the platform and applications with Device Guard13, which is designed to ensure that only signed, trusted applications can run, locking out any potentially dangerous applications.
If a trusted application is somehow compromised, application sandboxing helps prevent malicious code from being able to impact the system, data, and other apps. Online threats can also be prevented with Microsoft Edge, which includes improved SmartScreen protection designed for identifying and blocking all access to phishing sites without affecting browser performance.
Protection against data leakage
Windows Information Protection on devices with Windows 10 Mobile provides data separation and containment and was designed to safeguard personal information and prevent data leakage. Unlike most other solutions on the market, Windows 10 Mobile data protection does not disrupt your experience. In fact, no separate container or folder login is required with Windows Information Protection. Instead, protection technology is embedded natively in the mobile platform, which automatically encrypts data that comes from corporate sources. Corporate policy has the ability to be set to block, log, or alert any attempt to inappropriately copy, paste, open, or save encrypted data.
Managed for continuous innovation
Windows 10 Mobile provides rich, flexible management of devices, users, and apps, helping your IT provide innovative, cost-effective mobility solutions for any scenario.
Simple, flexible provisioning
Whether corporate or personal, Windows 10 Mobile devices can quickly be provisioned with the apps, protections, and configurations that are needed to be productive while you are working mobile. You can enroll your device in a mobile device management (MDM) service with just a few clicks. Once enrolled, your IT admin can deliver the apps, Wi-Fi and VPN profiles, and policies that you need in order to access corporate resources. Your IT admin also has the ability to manually pre-configure corporate-owned devices using Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer provisioning packages.
Native mobile device management support
Windows 10 Mobile natively supports Microsoft Intune and other third-party MDM solutions, ensuring that your IT admin can extend control to all mobile devices in your organization. Using MDM, your organization can easily distribute apps and app updates to phones and tablets with Windows 10 Mobile, automatically putting the latest innovations into the hands of you and your mobile coworkers.
Devices can also be custom configured for single-purpose use, making it simple to support specialized business scenarios like retail point of sale. With dozens of built-in policy settings, Windows 10 Mobile provides granular device hardware and software controls, helping enforce rules for password complexity, encryption, Wi-Fi and VPN access, and more.
App store that’s ready for business
Windows 10 Mobile devices simplify how your IT admin provides you with access to apps, making it possible to remotely deploy, update, restrict, and retire apps. App distribution across your organization is easier, as you can use either a Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory to download apps from the Windows Store.
For even more flexibility, your organization can use the Windows Store for Business to provide a single location for downloading and assigning licenses for all the in-house and licensed third-party apps you need to do your job. AppLocker provides your IT admin with app whitelisting and blacklisting controls to prevent the downloading or running of unauthorized apps on devices across your organization.
Innovative devices for your business
Windows 10 Mobile devices are built on a platform that helps you innovate and extend the mobility of your business.
Device choice
There is a wide range of Windows 10 Mobile devices to meet your design, technical specifications, and price point requirements. And every corporate or personal device running Windows 10 Mobile delivers a consistent user, application, security, and management experience.
Seamless mobile management and security
Phones and tablets with Windows 10 Mobile include security and management controls that are powerful, but largely invisible to you. Your IT admin can accurately enforce policies for accessing corporate data and resources without impacting your productivity.
Easy app development
Developers can deliver mobile applications faster and with more consistency across all device types with Windows apps built on the Universal Windows Platform. Applications automatically adjust to phone, tablet or PC form factors and screen sizes.
