LogMeIn's join.me App Debuts in Windows 8 Store

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.    

The benefits of instant

 "Windows 8 represents another great platform possibility 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."       

Instant online meeting

An instant online meeting and screen sharing service from LogMeIn, join.me is used by millions of people and hundreds of thousands of businesses for everything from meeting online, to quick, ad hoc, show-and-tell collaboration. A free version delivers on-the-fly collaboration in a matter of seconds -- no registration or additional plug-ins required -- and supports up to 250 participants.  A 'pro' version of the service with extended functionality is available for $19 per month or $149 per year. 

About LogMeIn, Inc.LogMeIn provides essential cloud-based services to individuals, businesses, and IT organizations for remote access, collaboration, customer care, and remote IT management. These services are used by more than 15 million people to quickly, simply and securely connect over 150 million internet-enabled devices across the globe — computers, smartphones, iPad™ and Android™ tablets, and digital displays. LogMeIn is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Australia, Hungary, India, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK.

LogMeIn and join.me are trademarks of LogMeIn in the U.S. and other countries. iPad is  a trademark of Apple Inc., Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation, and Android is a trademark of Google, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries around the world.