{"id":62100,"date":"2014-03-07T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T08:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=62100"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:50:07","slug":"windows-8-1-2014-update-accidentally-leaked-by-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-8-1-2014-update-accidentally-leaked-by-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 2014 update accidentally leaked by Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/windows-8.1-2014-update\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 8.1 2014 update<\/a> was briefly available to download for anyone, via direct links or a process involving changing the Windows registry, discovered through Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Update service. This has now been blocked by Microsoft, and the official release is still expected in April.<\/p>\n<p>From the leak we know the update is around 760MB, and it includes the new &#8216;desktop friendly&#8217; features for mouse users that Microsoft has added, in response to user feedback. Windows 8 apps have a new title bar allowing you to close, minimize or snap apps, and you&#8217;ll be able to see the desktop taskbar over apps if you wish. The update will also boot straight to the classic desktop on non-touch devices.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still time for Microsoft to make changes to the update before April, and while you can find it in unofficial channels online, <strong>it&#8217;s safer to wait for the official release<\/strong>, which is rumored to be on April 8th.<\/p>\n<p>We expect Microsoft to officially present details of the Windows 8.1 2014 update at its <strong>Build Developer Conference<\/strong> at the start of April.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/directx-12-to-be-presented-on-march-20th\">DirectX 12 to be presented on March 20th<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/vlc-for-windows-8-1-coming-mar-10\">VLC for Windows 8.1 coming Mar. 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-answers-your-question-am-i-running-xp\">Microsoft answers your question: Am I running XP?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/you-can-download-windows-81-update-1-right-now-with-a-simple-registry-tweak\">Neowin<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows 8.1 2014 update was briefly available to download for anyone, via direct links or a process involving changing the Windows registry, discovered through Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Update service. This has now been blocked by Microsoft, and the official release is still expected in April. From the leak we know the update is around 760MB, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-8-1-2014-update-accidentally-leaked-by-microsoft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 8.1 2014 update accidentally leaked by Microsoft&#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-62100","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\/62100","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=62100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331190,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62100\/revisions\/331190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62100"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=62100"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=62100"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=62100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}