Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available ‘later’ this year
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One of the worst kept secrets rattling around Microsoft’s campus is Windows Blue, the forthcoming update to Windows 8 that addresses users’ bugbears about the revamped OS. However, like Picasso before it, Microsoft has decided to end its Blue Period by officially rechristening the platform with the more staid Windows 8.1. Tami Reller, the CMO and CFO of Microsoft’s Windows Division made the big reveal during JP Morgan’s Technology, Media & Telecom Conference. The upgrade will be free and available from the home screen when it launches, while a preview version will be opened up to the public on June 26th with the beginning of the Build conference. Unfortunately, Reller wouldn’t get any more specific about a formal release date, say simply that it will be delivered “later in the calendar year.”
As anticipated, the Windows 8.1 update will come to both the full version of the OS as well as the ARM-friendly RT.
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