LogMeIn, Inc. just released a new version of its popular free screen sharing and online meeting app, join.me, available now for download in the Windows Store.
Featuring an all new user experience that uses the Windows Metro style user interface, the join.me app is designed to run on ARM and x86-based Windows 8-based PCs, including tablets and mobile devices. As a result, people can take advantage of the ubiquitous mobility and multi-device benefits of join.me to collaborate from virtually anywhere on virtually any device.
Available for today’s most popular mobile and computing platforms, join.me, is used by millions of people and thousands of businesses, for everything from online meetings to quick, on-the-fly screen sharing for just-in-time collaboration. The join.me app for Windows 8 Release Preview allows users to attend meetings and visually and verbally collaborate with people across the hall or across the globe.
Screen shots of the new join.me app are available at http://blog.join.me.
“Windows 8 represents another great platform opportunity for us to deliver the benefits of instant, ad-hoc screen sharing and online meetings to the modern, multi-device professional,” said Lou Orfanos, Director of Collaboration Products for LogMeIn. “The elegant nature of join.me and Windows 8 offers a foundation for what we believe can be a fundamental shift in the way people meet online and share information.”
“With the join.me app, LogMeIn offers a great example of how app developers are able to quickly create useful apps that take advantage of Windows 8 functionality,” said John Richards, senior director, Windows partners and developers at Microsoft Corp. “We see join.me’s on-the-fly collaboration benefits as a natural complement to the new generation of on-the-go hardware and software possible with Windows 8.”