Windows 8.1

6 days ago - It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released for retail sale on October 17, 2013, about a year after the retail release of its predecessor, and succeeded by Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Windows 8.1 was made available for download via MSDN and Technet and available ...

Model/Version: Windows 8.1 (available in editions such as Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8.1 Enterprise, and Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry). Release Date: Released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, with general ...

October 17, 2024 - Because Windows 8 was about as popular as foot fungus, so they marketed it as as big of a step away from plain Win 8 as possible ... Wish they would do this now with 10/11. Instead of like "24H2", just be 11.1, 11.2, etc.

As a reminder, Windows 8.1 will reach the end of support on January 10, 2023. After this date, this product will no longer receive security updates, non-security updates, bug fixes, technical support, or online technical content updates.

1 week ago - Windows 8.1 (codenamed Windows Blue) is an operating system by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on 27 August 2013 and made generally available on 17 October 2013 as a free upgrade for Windows 8 users.

January 20, 2023 - Announcing Windows 8.1 end of support on January 10, 2023

November 21, 2022 - Windows 8.1 was released 9 years ago.

October 19, 2023 - Microsoft (MSFT) has set the official Windows 8.1 debut for midnight local time Oct. 18 in New Zealand (or 4 a.m. Oct. 17 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash.), when users worldwide will be able to log on to the Windows Store to download ...

6 days ago - In January 2016, Microsoft announced ... Windows 8.1 or 7 on devices using Intel's Skylake CPU family, and that all future CPU microarchitectures, as well as Skylake systems after this date, would only be supported on Windows 10.

Windows 8 premiered in August of 2012. Microsoft was trying to make a name for itself in the mobile market and their new OS was described as “metro”. It was for use on touchscreen devices and PCs, but the initial rollout had a lot of people confused. In fact, many reverted to Windows 7, ...

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October 17, 2013 - At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in July, CMO and CFO Tami Reller confirmed that the Windows 8.1 is nearing completion and that it will be rolled out to OEMs in late August.

1 day ago - In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft released versions of Windows specially designed to run on ARM-based tablets; these versions of Windows, named "Windows RT" and "Windows RT 8.1," were based on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, respectively.

June 12, 2025 - Tami Reller, corporate vice president and chief financial officer of the Microsoft Windows division, announced the release of the Windows 8.1 Preview during the Build Windows conference in June, 2013.

August 14, 2013 - Microsoft has announced that the first major update to Windows 8, known as Windows 8.1, will be available worldwide beginning Oct. 18. The update will be released as a free download for consumers and brings a slew of features intended to address ...

November 1, 2021 - The final version of Windows 8.1 isn’t now expected to be released to the public until October, even though it will be released to manufacturers at the end of August. Microsoft is expected to use the intervening period to eradicate any bugs ...

July 7, 2022 - The initial release of Windows 8 has the version number 6.2.9200. See our Windows Version Numbers list for more on this. Any version of Windows 8.1 you buy from Microsoft or another retailer, via a download or on a disc, will have a standard retail license.

The first laptops and PCs featuring Windows 8.1 already installed are scheduled to go on sale Oct.

August 8, 2022 - Later, it was released to retail on October 26, 2012. ... If you want to install Windows 8 on your device, you need to check if your PC meets the following requirements: CPU: 1 GHz with NX, PAE, and SSE2 support (CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW, and LAHF/SAHF ...