Microsoft Unveils Windows 8.1 free update
Microsoft Corporation
forthcoming update to its personal computer operating system will be called
Windows 8.1 and will be available later this year free to existing Windows 8
customers, the marketing chief for the Windows unit said on Tuesday.
The world's largest
software company has been touting the update, previously code-named 'Blue,' as
a series of improvements to the Windows 8 software, launched in October, which
has not been as popular as it had hoped.
Microsoft has sold
100 million Windows 8 licenses in the six months since launch, roughly in line
with the previous version, but wants to combat sputtering interest in its
flagship software with a substantial update to make it easier to use and
compatible with smaller tablets.
"Windows 8.1 will
be delivered as a free update to Windows 8 and to Windows RT and it will be
easy to get right from the Windows start screen through the app store,"
said Tami Reller, head of finance and marketing at Microsoft's Windows unit.
A preview version of
Windows 8.1 will be made available at the start of Microsoft's annual developer
conference on June 26, Reller said, with the finished update released later
this year.
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