Windows 8.1 To Be Made Available To Public In October

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Windows 8.1 To Be Made Available To Public In October

Microsoft is currently testing Windows 8.1 with developers, ahead of a public release, in hopes of bringing several new features and enhancements to the Windows table. Microsoft released a preview of the update in late June, and reports in July suggested that the final build was on schedule to ship to manufacturing partners at the end of this month. The Verge said Microsoft’s release to manufacturing schedule is still set to meet that deadline, but that updates to existing machines aren’t expected until October.

According to one of ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley’s “best tipsters,” Microsoft is going to release the final Windows 8.1 bits around mid-October, which is when it’ll become available to the general public. The mid-October date will also be used as the launch date for new Windows 8.1 PCs and 7 and 8-inch devices.

The Windows update will reportedly make its debut alongside new 7-inch and 8-inch devices running the operating system. Microsoft is apparently hard at work on its own new Surface tablets with those screen sizes, though it’s unclear if they’ll launch at the same time as Windows 8.1 or if they’ll come at a later date.

Windows 8.1 includes a number of multitasking improvements, new smaller Live Tiles, and a built-in Bing-powered search engine. A near-final version of the update leaked to the internet recently, offering a closer look at the changes between Preview and RTM. Microsoft is adding in a number of tutorials and Windows Phone-like menus to ease complaints over the usability of the operating system. The Windows 8.1 update will be made available around 12 months after Windows 8 first debuted in October last year.

Windows 8.1 includes a number of multitasking improvements, new smaller Live Tiles, and a built-in Bing-powered search engine

If Microsoft manages to launch the update in October, it'll fall around the one-year anniversary of Windows 8. That's a big change for Windows, which typically releases major updates once every few years, but it's a necessary change as Microsoft tries to keep up with Apple and Google.

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