Microsoft Windows 8.1 Gets October Release Date
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In a sign of Microsoft's commitment to a quickened software release cadence, Windows 8.1 will launch in less than a year after its predecessor.
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Mark your calendars, Microsoft is ready to release the free Windows 8.1 upgrade on the 17th of October, 2013. The announcement was made yesterday by Microsoft's Link Removed on Link Removed. Special thanks to @nmsuk for the quick find!
Since windows 8 has been released for a while now, I was wondering if and when service pack 2 is going to be released for windows 7. windows 7 seems to still be th os of choice for many, however windows 8 is not all that terrible once you get used to the funky start screen.
Mary Jo Foley has an article running which almost confirms a few of the rumours:
Windows Blue named Windows 8.1.
Blue to be free.
Available through the Store and not Windows update.
Initial public preview release end of June 2013.
Release to manufacturing around August 2013.
Includes GUI...
Original release date: December 12, 2012 | Last revised: January 24, 2013
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Overview Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released...
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I'm honestly seeing and hearing a lot more excited, positive, enthusiastic comments & editorials since Oct. 24th and since more & more folks are actually getting their hands on Win8 GA then we might have ever expected after or from some of what we were reading & hearing before its release...
Today we’re providing advance notification of the release of seven bulletins, one Critical and six Important, for October 2012. The Critical bulletin addresses vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word. The six Important-rated bulletins will address issues in Windows, Microsoft Office, and SQL...
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Softpedia are running an article relating to the release date of Windows 8:
You can checkout the full article here:
Windows 8 in 109 Languages, 231 Markets Globally - Softpedia
Hello everyone, This is part two of my Windows Phone devices summary. See the mango (7.5) devices here.That thread also shows minimum OEM requirements for Windows Phone devices.Now, for the original Windows Phones, mostly launched with the operating system on November 8th 2010 (NA) and October...
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# forwhatitsworth Acer- and Samsung-built Chromebooks arrive in retail stores, URL shortener bitly makes its "Pro" service free to all users, and Microsoft VP Dan'l Lewin gives reason to believe Windows 8 might arrive in the fall of 2012. More*»
Source: Yahoo! News
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
There are some rumors about when Microsoft might ship its next major operating system. We're asking readers to answer when would be the right time for you. Tomorrow? 12 months? Longer?
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 was just revealed recently with a demo of the tablet-friendly interface at the D9 conference and then some actual hardware prototypes shown at Computex 2011. Future Windows desktops, notebooks, and tablets will all be running Windows 8 and the release date is now hinted for...
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And as I’ve been saying all along, the past (i.e. Windows 7 and its schedule) is a great indicator of what will happen this time. Speaking at the start-up LAUNCH event at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus this week, Microsoft Corporate VP Dan'l...
(Recasts, adds comments, changes dateline) * Windows 8 is code name for new system * No date for release, expected before Oct 2012 * Demo shows features optimized for tablets * Qualcomm supports Windows ...
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Microsoft issued a retraction of Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's claims this week that Windows 8 would arrive in 2012 on tablets and PCs. The Redmond, Wash., company said Ballmer misspoke and even backed off the next release of its Windows operating system being called Windows 8. In an Wednesday...