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Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the year-of-the-windows-desktop dept.

poofmeisterp writes "It's about time. Windows 8.1 will be released to end users in October, and RTM is being released now: 'Windows 8.1, codenamed "Blue," is introducing a number of changes designed to make the new operating system more palatable to current Windows users. Windows 8.1 is adding a Start Button, a boot-straight-to-desktop option; the ability to unpin all Metro apps; built-in tutorials; an improved Windows Store and a host of other consumer- and business-focused features. Microsoft launched its one and only Windows 8.1 consumer preview test build in late June.'"

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  1. Re:Too little too late by Gumbercules!! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thanks to Penny Arcade I thought the same thing - however its not true. I did download the community release and you can indeed have an old school start menu again.

  2. Re:Too little too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You don't get it, why do you have to beat it into submission? Are you so incompetent that you consider installing a program to be that difficult? Are you resentful of compensating somebody for their labors?

    If you're administering 10,000 users, you should be able to implement a solution for them, rather than foisting it off on them, if you've set up your systems competently. Apparently you haven't, despite Microsoft giving you the tools to do so. Now who is to blame for that? Microsoft, for not holding your hand some more?

    And if you want to discuss why you should buy Windows 8 when what you have works fine, then you might as well ask why should you upgrade to LinuxDistro X+1 when X works fine for you. Or any other program or upgrade that might come up. Why should you pay Intel for a Haswell CPU when you can get your job done with a Pentium CPU from 3 generations ago? Why should you do anything? That's a thousand possible questions and answers.

    But don't complain to me that you can't fix a problem when you could if you weren't so incompetent you're unable to download and install a program. Especially not when so many of the complainers are fucking Linux users who expect you to be able to haul your own water rather than have it fed to you through a straw.