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Monday, March 30, 2015

Alaska Airlines makes a major upgrade with in-flight entertainment using Windows 8.1 tablets

Alaska Airlines makes a major upgrade with in-flight entertainment using Windows 8.1 tablets:





Microsoft and the Windows operating system earned a new feather in their caps from Alaska Airlines who deployed 7,000 tablets as part of an enhanced passenger entertainment feature.



The hardware underneath the airline branded case is a Toshiba Encore tablet. The Encore is an 8-inch 1280x800 resolution panel powered by an Intel Atom CPU. A spec-leader it is not, but the form-factor along with the cost, and with the environment the tablet will be used, make it ideal.



According to Alaska Airlines, within weeks of its initial rollout of the new entertainment feature, the company ...


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