Posted on 07/30/2013 11:15:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft delivers to testers Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview
Microsoft made available to testers the Enterprise version of its Windows 8.1 preview on July 30.
The Enterprise preview includes some of the business-focused features of Windows 8.1 that were not available in the Windows 8.1 preview, which Microsoft made available for download by any and all interested testers in late June.
Among the new features in the Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview build are:
Here's the full list of business-focused features Microsoft officials have said will be coming in Windows 8.1.
Here's the download link for the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview.
In a post to the Microsoft "Windows for Your Business" blog, officials noted that Windows 8.1 will remain under the same lifecycle policy as Windows 8, which means support will end on January 10, 2023.
Microsoft officials said earlier this summer that Windows 8.1 will be released to manufacturing by the end of August 2013. Officials still are declining to comment as to when existing Windows 8 users will be able to get their hands on the RTM bits.
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I was going to snark ... but when you take Windows ... it is pointless and besides, maybe one day the pig will sing!
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems Microsoft has lost their way. It just seems like everything they do is a mess, a flop, or both.
I really question Microsoft’s ongoing reason for existing. Seems everyone else is eating their lunch. Also, it seems like Microsoft has a distinct tin ear when it comes to the consumer.
They should rename Windows (Wait Around)
Then they could call it the Wait Around Operating System.
Just Wait Around. There are plenty of other things to do while you are waiting for the OS to load and shutdown.
ha ha ha just kidding... : )
I tell ya, I’ve been so happy since the traditional Microsoft blue screen has been replaced by the machine freezes every time a browser waits for a response from some website.
I expect to sleep for a very long time.
Is it still possible to load Win 8, and get the free 8.1 download?
RE: Maybe its just me, but it seems Microsoft has lost their way. It just seems like everything they do is a mess, a flop, or both.
As I look at Microsoft’s Windows history, I’m not sure if this latest move from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 is anything different from what they’ve done before.
Their first attempt at Windows failed. They went from Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1 and then to Windows 95.
Windows 98 received a less than enthusiastic response and Windows Millenium Edition (ME) was a flop.
Then came Windows XP that was a huge success. What followed was another disaster — Windows Vista. That was replaced by the superb Windows 7.
Who knows what the latest incarnation -— Windows 8 to 8.1 will be like....
I think Windows 8 is great. I don’t get all the whiners.
I get that sense too. It seems like all they do is endlessly meet and discuss what they'd like to have in an OS...all in a sealed echo chamber. Then they issue press releases that tell us how wonderful it will be and send out Steve Balmer to tell us how much we'll love it.
Every version of Windows has had whiners. They usually become the people that then love it and whine about how the next version is awful and the one they hated was perfect.
I for one have really been enjoying 8.1. Whenever I use 7 now, It feels like I’m using a relic. Even the look of desktop icons is irritating.
I think the way MS is doing it is to break all things not MS in the XP updates.
That last update really screwed up the stability of my admittedly old TV card drivers, especially when run under WinAmp.
It’s the performance, stupid, not the pictures of the screen. Blue screens were unacceptable. Feature overload was and is unacceptable. Lack of administration utilities is unacceptable. Lack of transparency in the Bizantine registry design is unacceptable. System freezes, when, as I mentioned, a browser waits for a response from a website are unacceptable in multi-processor, multi-thread systmes. Etc, etc.
Microsoft is still the go-to for business.
Microsoft doesn’t make crap off the retail consumer. They are in the business for business.
I have been running 8 since pre-release. The family uses it daily on desktops and laptops. It is just fine. I am not a huge fan of metro, but that is just fine too.
Only Microsfot could introduce software that looks worse and has less features, and call it an “upgrade”
windows 8 was the first software i ever bought that made me want to get violent
I lost almost a month of prodcutivity trying to get it to do stuff I used to do every day for 20 years.
It works for me, as well, with a noticeably faster start up. I mainly run it from the “desktop tile”. Not perfect, but not a dog.
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