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    Windows 8.1 to launch October 17th download and October 18th retail!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ibbi1337, Aug 14, 2013.

  1. ibbi1337

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  2. Mitlov

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    About frickin' time. This has been a looooooong time coming, and now we've got to wait another two months?
     
    Mitlov, Aug 14, 2013
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  3. baii

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    Isn't preview the same if you want to get it now?
     
    baii, Aug 14, 2013
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    Anyways, I have an Acer v5-122p-0600 that came with Windows 8 from the factory. Will I be eligible for the 8.1 download for free?

    What about 8 Pro with MC? Will it then become "8.1 Pro with MC?"
     
    davidricardo86, Aug 14, 2013
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    i guess the RTM version will be done at the end of august. Do I really need to wait until October 17th? What would happen if I install the leak earlier than 17th October to my Windows 8 laptop?
     
    Big_Vulture, Aug 14, 2013
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  6. ibbi1337

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    its an Eval Time-bombed build set to expire on 15 Jan 2014.
     
    ibbi1337, Aug 15, 2013
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Read as Please, oh pretty please, buy now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, right......................

    Although reading between the lines they are staying consistent to the message of this is Windows 8 and like it as it is staying as it is but we are trying to improve what it is! Not the original we are listening to the customers.............
     
    TANWare, Aug 15, 2013
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    When can we expect those leaks?
     
    Tax, Aug 19, 2013
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    Ive never been so hyped for a Service pack in my whole life!

    /sarcasm
     
    Jobine, Aug 19, 2013
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    So they brought the start button but NOT the start menu. What is this? Microsoft having fun with us?
    That useless button turns the W8 to W8.1? Why did i even "upgrade" to W8?
    Its all my fault and now I am suffering it...
     
    vesayreve, Aug 28, 2013
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    Long time? Compared to what? :confused:
    A year after W8 is not a long time.
     
    SL2, Aug 28, 2013
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    They've been teasing 8.1 since nearly the beginning of the year, if I recall correctly, and had hinted that it'd be out to people by August, not October.
     
    Mitlov, Aug 28, 2013
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    Tried it a while ago, compared to Windows 8, it is better, compared to Windows 7, your stance likely won't change if you were firmly in the Windows 8 hate camp. If you were in the I don't care either way or had a few minor annoyances with Windows 8, then 8.1 is definitely worth a shot.

    One thing I don't get is not releasing RTM to Technet and MSDN, that's a rather big screw you to developers and it doens't make much sense imo.
     
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    Tijo, what are some of the positive changes in 8.1? I use StartIsBack and Stardock's Decor8. I read that MS was enhancing the Start Page layout or at least allowing for limited customization.

    nvm, I just noticed Indrek's post and read up on it in Wikipedia.

    I would like to know if HDD's larger than 2GB has been address in the FS? Up to now you have to setup the drive via GPART.
     
    Rodster, Aug 28, 2013
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    How long they've been teasing with it has nothing to do with it.
    I've never seen anything about general availability in August, you don't happen to have a source for that?
     
    SL2, Aug 28, 2013
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    Yeah I meant 2TB :thumbsup:

    The rest I already knew about. I was just hoping anything above 2TB would not require GPT partitioning and just be treated like any other drive..
     
    Rodster, Aug 28, 2013
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    GPT and UEFI are now really a necessity and should have been for the last several years. Just there was such slow adoption for UEFI, but I'm glad MS made it a requirement for Win 8. At least that's one good thing about Win 8.
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 28, 2013
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    Win 8 can be use with bios, just that you don't get the fast boot?
     
    baii, Aug 28, 2013
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    Yeah,especially if it got leaked already anyway :p
     
    James D, Aug 28, 2013
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    It can, just to be a "MS certified Windows 8 PC" it has to come with UEFI.
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 29, 2013
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    From my one experience, POST takes longer, but on a SSD is as instantaneous as ever to boot Windows 8 once POST is done.
     
    tijo, Aug 29, 2013
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    I literally cannot believe what they did, and the stupid explanation they gave for it. :facepalm:

    Needless to say, as my Windows 8 system connects to the internet this way, and they ripped this functionality out for no sane reason whatsoever, there will be no upgrade of my Windows 8 to 8.1. To hell with it..

    But.... the carelessness, the temerity of yanking a functionality out of IE/Windows, but leaving the GUI that exposed it unchanged, untouched...I am in disbelief.
     
    Teerex, Sep 12, 2013
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    Sounds like a Steve Ballmer parting gift. :p
     
    Rodster, Sep 12, 2013
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    Tried an RTM version - greater performance, longer battery life, nice UI customizations, but... HP have no released Connection Manager for my 8760w even for Windows 8. So, in my situation I can't use it as "main OS"...
     
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    in comparison with what?
     
    James D, Sep 12, 2013
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    In comparison to the last version - Windows 8 )
     
    valuxin, Sep 12, 2013
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