{"id":70960,"date":"2014-08-12T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=70960"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:32:45","slug":"psa-windows-8-1-august-updates-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/psa-windows-8-1-august-updates-available-now\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Windows 8.1 August updates available to download now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft’s latest bundle of updates for Windows 8.1 is now available to download. While the update isn’t critical, you’ll want to update if you have touchpad issues<\/strong> or use SharePoint<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Last week, Microsoft announced that today’s update wouldn’t be enough for a “point release,” meaning the update is too minor<\/a> to be called Windows 8.2. Most of the updates this time are behind-the-scenes and generally improve the performance<\/strong> of your computer.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are security updates galore. The August update is recommended, but not critical. This means it won’t install automatically so you’ll have to approve of the update.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also announced it will update Windows on a regular basis<\/strong> instead of waiting on a bunch of fixes to release as a major update.<\/p>\n

To get the update, run Windows Update<\/strong> by typing the name of the program from the Start interface. Alternatively, you can download the updates manually below.<\/p>\n

Download Windows 8.1 August update: 32-bit<\/a> | 64-bit<\/a><\/p>\n

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Microsoft’s latest bundle of updates for Windows 8.1 is now available to download. While the update isn’t critical, you’ll want to update if you have touchpad issues or use SharePoint. Last week, Microsoft announced that today’s update wouldn’t be enough for a “point release,” meaning the update is too minor to be called Windows 8.2. … Continue reading “PSA: Windows 8.1 August updates available to download now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":70965,"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-70960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70960","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\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330352,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70960\/revisions\/330352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70960"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=70960"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=70960"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=70960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}