{"id":47480,"date":"2013-08-13T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=47480"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:15:15","slug":"windows-8-1-not-rolling-out-until-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-8-1-not-rolling-out-until-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 not rolling out until October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/windows-8.1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Windows 8.1<\/strong><\/a> will be released in October to users, according to Zdnet&#8217;s Mary Jo Foley. Microsoft should be releasing to manufacturing the update by the end of August, but it won&#8217;t be rolled out to users for a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming Windows 8 update is highly anticipated, as it brings a number of changes that users have been requesting since the controversial operating system was released. The Windows <strong>Start Button<\/strong> is making a return, of sorts. Now you&#8217;ll easily be able to get from the classic desktop to the Modern UI by clicking the icon where you would expect the Start Button to be. It&#8217;s not the same as the well loved Windows 7 and earlier button, but it&#8217;s a welcome addition.<\/p>\n<p>Another sure to be popular development is <strong>boot to desktop<\/strong>. You will be able to choose to go directly to the classic desktop when you boot your computer, which will suit those users who prefer that environment.<\/p>\n<p>Read our <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-with-windows-8-1-preview\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>hands on preview with Windows 8.1<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsofts-windows-8-1-when-will-users-get-the-final-bits-7000019281\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zdnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8.1 will be released in October to users, according to Zdnet&#8217;s Mary Jo Foley. Microsoft should be releasing to manufacturing the update by the end of August, but it won&#8217;t be rolled out to users for a couple of months. The upcoming Windows 8 update is highly anticipated, as it brings a number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-8-1-not-rolling-out-until-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 8.1 not rolling out until October&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2564],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-47480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332439,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47480\/revisions\/332439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47480"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=47480"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=47480"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=47480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}