Windows 8.1 signed off?

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I hope they have re-added the ability to automatically pin tiles, Use the accent color as the tile background and fixed the issue with xbox movies/music not working with indexed file shares. Otherwise its looking like a good update even more so on the server side with the major improvements to hyperv

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8/1?

 

But... you know... 9500 isn't divisible by 16... Windows 8.1 has to be build 9600... so I wouldn't believe this.

 

They wouldn't have signed off on Windows 8.1 2 weeks after BUILD 2013 (June 28-July 12). To sign off on a build, they need a couple of weeks of testing... which would mean they would have had to have already compiled a final build before BUILD.

 

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if i remember correctly it was supposed to launch in September or something, i am really not all that concerned about it as from what i remember reading it will not add any features that will matter much to me other than the login to desktop feature.

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The RTM should be later this month, probably in the last week.  Because it's a update and not a whole new version the wait for it to go out over the Windows Store to users shouldn't be long after that.  They'll probably give OEMs a small head start but don't expect the same gap between RTM and GA that we get with a whole new OS release.  I think it should hit the update servers for everyone in the 2nd week of September. 

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Will they make everyone wait, or once it RTM's it would go out to people with 8 currently as an update? 

 

Maybe we'll wait a bit so OEMs can get it first?  We'll see, it's going out like a SP has in the past so maybe we don't have to wait at all really.

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