Confirmed: Windows Blue Will Be Free, to Be Called 8.1

Installed it on my desktop using a spare hard drive. At first the screen resolution was ridiculously low despite the fact that it had automatically installed the correct graphics card drivers. After about 10 mins it seemed to just correct itself automatically. Then windows update popped up to tell me that my wifi card drivers were out of date. (Surely the latest drivers should be supplied with the latest os?). So anyway, I installed the update and after a restart it told me there were no wireless networks found. (before the update and in Win 7 it detects at least 6 networks.) So I tried to do a driver roll back for it to totally crash and restart the entire machine. I've not bothered any more since then and just booted back into 7.
 
ok...so I've had a few more days to get used to it

Running on my PC and Asus ME400C Tablet (which btw is simply amazing!)

Thoughts:

Plex doesn't work on IE11
Vitual Clone Drive doesn't work

Xbox Music is actually pretty good once you get used to it
Store is a huge improvement (once you know to swipe up to get the menu)

Love having the swipe up feature to see all apps (which don't automatically clutter the
home screen)

Power Options from settings is a godsend (did MS forget to put that in on 8.0)

Installation and Boot time is faster (code improvements?)
 
Do we know yet whether or not Microsoft will release a 'Release Candidate', as I believe they did with Windows 8.0, before they launch the 'finished product'?
 
can anyone with borderlands 2 launch from steam and confirm if it is working in windows 8.1? I can't get mine to launch and am getting all sort of errors. It is only this game, everything else is fine.
 
Montala said:
Do we know yet whether or not Microsoft will release a 'Release Candidate', as I believe they did with Windows 8.0, before they launch the 'finished product'?
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I believe this is all we're getting before RTM. Which is fine really considering the new cadence there isn't much point in a drawn out beta stage. There will be some new OEM builds floating around between now and then but not another public milestone.
 
Windows 8.1 seems much better then 8....I can now boot straight to desktop and also then you press start button you can set it to bring up desktop apps first......also right click menu on start button is good...

I bought Windows 8 upgrade for cheap when it first came out so will install that once this update hits....
 
Best things so far for me is the smallest change - you can choose your own wallpaper for the start screen. With the wallpaper set the same as the desktop switching between them no longer feels "jarring" to me, it looks like the live tiles just pop up onto my desktop (they don't but you get my drift).
 
Macro said:
Best things so far for me is the smallest change - you can choose your own wallpaper for the start screen. With the wallpaper set the same as the desktop switching between them no longer feels "jarring" to me, it looks like the live tiles just pop up onto my desktop (they don't but you get my drift).
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You can also force this on through group policy by setting a specific Start background and using the background ID 15. This lets users change the desktop wallpaper, but that will always appear underneath the Start screen.

Win-win.
 
Just puting this up before I reboot, only took a sec to update vs reinstall or whatever

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview-download
1.Place and rename the MSU file in an easily accessible place, e.g. C:\8preview\preview.msu or whatever
2.Open command prompt in administrator mode.
3.Type: Expand –F:* c:\8preview\preview.msu C:\8preview\
4.Type: DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:c:\8preview\Windows8-RT-KB2849636-x64.cab
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As this is a preview I'm assuming when the full release is available I'd have format and re-install? Or will the RTM update the preview?
 
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