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Windows 8.1 Update Released, With Improvements For Non-Touch Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the don't-touch-me-there-or-there-or-there dept.

DroidJason1 (3589319) writes "Microsoft has released the highly anticipated Windows 8.1 Update, adding numerous improvements for non-touch consumers based on feedback. It is also a required update for Windows 8.1, otherwise consumers will no get any future security updates after May 2014. Most of the changes in the update are designed to appease non-touch users, with options to show apps on the desktop taskbar, the ability to see show the taskbar above apps, and a new title bar at the top of apps with options to minimize, close, or snap apps."

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  1. It's a start by lgw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, it's a start. I doubt I'm unique in that I won't be happy until I get a proper, Win 7 Start menu back, at least as an option. Live tiles on my desktop would be nice too.

    Basically, give me back the Win 7 UI with the ability to put live tiles on the desktop, and run apps in a windows. Remember "windows"? Call be weird, but I'd like a version of Windows with, you know, windows.

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    1. Re:It's a start by roc97007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There used to be this thing called Windows Gadgets. But I guess that wasn't cool and trendy enough.

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  2. Re:Win 8.1 is just fine by Lendrick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like Win 8.1. It's fast and reliable. I don't think it has ever crashed.

    I can do everything I want pretty easily: edit videos, produce music, play games, run Steam, run overclocked hardware.

    Yes, I'm sure you can do all that stuff that the cool kids are doing. I don't see anyone here questioning Windows 8's capabilities; people are complaining about the fact that it's a tablet interface that's been shoehorned into a desktop, and everything about it is designed to push you back to the tablet interface (which, conveniently for Microsoft, is a walled garden that they control).

    At any rate, Windows 7 does all that cool kid stuff too, and the interface is sensible for desktop users.