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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:Missing feature? by udippel · · Score: 1, Funny

    Giving me an uninstall feature and I might consider it. ;)

    Try ubuntu.com.

  2. Re:Too little too late by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi Steve!

    I see you are having problems getting used to not working for Microsoft anymore...

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  3. Re: Too little too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously. Just stop. Whatever they're paying you, is it worth your dignity?

  4. Re:GNU/Linux forced on XP users by mcgrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has been marked flamebait, which is kind of strange considering users are migrating on the Desktop to GNU/Linux(For want of a name) Chrome and Android (seriously!?), the trend is small, but noticeable.

    Microsoft fans (or are they all shills? Doubtful...) get mod points, too. More honest moderators have fixed it, he's sitting at 2 as I write this.

    Oh, and to keep the MS fans/shills/stockholders/employees with mod points from modding other insightful comments down I'll get them to waste them on me.

    Micro$oft SuXXorz!!!"

    Shouldn't take long to hit -1.

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  5. Re: Too little too late by David+Gould · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Win7 is mediocre."
    "Win7 is by far the best OS Microsoft has ever made."

    A prime example of how two different statements can be true simultaneously.

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