Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users

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Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @05:35AM from the getting-rid-of-the-blues dept.

Several readers sent word that Microsoft has officially dubbed the upcoming revision to its flagship operating system "Windows 8.1," retiring the code-name "Windows Blue." They also said the update would be freely available to anybody with Windows 8. It will be available through the Windows Store. "Reller declined to provide an exact release date for Windows 8.1, but said that Microsoft is 'very sensitive to the timing of the holidays.' Ideally, Microsoft will be able to provide devices with Windows 8.1 pre-loaded in time for the holiday 2013 season, Reller said, but those who purchase a Windows 8 device later this year will be able to easily upgrade to 8.1."

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Wohoo! by Steve+Ka · 2013-05-14 05:37 · Score: 1, Funny

I've waited for this. Party hard, party hard. Wohoo!
Fuck the Walled Garden by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-14 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

As long as it's a closed development ecosystem where you have to pay to play, and MS gets to profit from your work, all I have to say is FUCK MICROSOFT. I'm sticking with my MBP.
Re:Boy, they just ask for it, don't they. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-14 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Windows Blue?
More like Windows Blew.
Re:So what comes next? by Vanderhoth · 2013-05-14 05:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Windows Classic
Re:Service pack by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2013-05-14 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Free.
Couldn't sell it.
Only for current users. That's not exactly restricting scope, is it? ;-)

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Re:Wow... by Austerity+Empowers · 2013-05-14 06:01 · Score: 5, Funny

I'd still wait for Windows 8.11 for workgroups. Maybe they'll add a proper command line and support x forwarding natively.
Re:Service pack by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-14 06:21 · Score: 0, Funny

I guess RMS will finally be happy now when Windows is free software.
Re: Too little, too late? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-14 06:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Year of Linux on the desktop?
Re:Boy, they just ask for it, don't they. by Yewbert · 2013-05-14 07:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Made me think of the Mitch Hedburg one-liner. "I used to do drugs. I *still* do, but I used to, too."
Windows Blue. It *still* blows, but it blue, too.
Go back further... by neoshroom · 2013-05-14 07:09 · Score: 5, Funny

I seriously can't know how people can be comfortable with the Win7 Start screen. Here's a picture of my Program Manager in Win3.11. Everything is nicely pinned right there (no moving mouse around the screen), the search functionality works the same and there is direct access to things like Control Panel. It does not steal the attention with a full screen jumbled mess of harshly colored squares with uncolored icons.

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1. Re:Go back further... by Darinbob · 2013-05-14 10:02 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Windows 7 start menu is essentially the optimized version of the windows 3 program manager, with easier means to open and access along with ability to use files and programs not contained within program manager. Whereas Windows 8 start screen is optimized for the use of pounding your forehead against a touch screen .
Re:Wow... by twistedsymphony · 2013-05-14 07:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Might want to fix that image... before anyone realizes you use IE instead of.... anything else.

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