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Windows 8.1
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personal computer operating system by Microsoft that was released in 2013
Windows 8.1 is a personal computer operating system made by Microsoft that came out in 2013. It's the software that runs on computers and manages all the programs and files stored on them.
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- operating system
- Subclass of
- Windows NT
- Has part
- Microsoft Photos
- Country of origin
- United States
- Series
- Windows NT
- Followed by
- Windows 10
- Follows
- Windows 8
- Based on
- Windows 8
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Platform
- ARM architecture
- Distribution format
- DVD-ROM
- Official website
- windows.microsoft.com/windows-8
- Image
- Start81.png
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- GUI toolkit or framework
- Media Foundation
- Commons category
- Microsoft Windows 8.1
- update method
- disk image
- inception
- 2013-10-17
- software version identifier
- 6.3.9600.17041
- copyright holder
- Microsoft
- working title
- Blue
- copyright license
- end-user license agreement
- edition or translation of
- Microsoft Windows
- package management system
- Microsoft Store
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/windows-8.1
- language of work or name
- multiple languages
- discontinuation date
- 2023-01-10
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Encyclopedic overview
Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system based on Windows 8 developed by Microsoft. 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 as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows RT users via the Windows Store. A server version, Windows Server 2012 R2, was released on October 18, 2013.
Windows 8.1 aimed to address complaints of Windows 8 users and reviewers on launch. Enhancements include an improved Start screen, additional snap views, additional bundled apps, tighter OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) integration, Internet Explorer 11 (IE11), a Bing-powered unified search system, restoration of a visible Start button on the taskbar, and the ability to restore the previous behavior of opening the user's desktop on login instead of the Start screen. Windows 8.1 also added support for then emerging technologies like high-resolution displays, 3D printing, Wi-Fi Direct, and Miracast streaming, as well as the ReFS file system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Windows 8.1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.