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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. Too little too late by Teresita · · Score: 5, Informative

    The start button takes you from the Desktop right back to the Metro screen, which is what pisses everyone off in the first place.