Microsoft delivers to testers Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview
Microsoft made available to testers the Enterprise version of its Windows 8.1 preview on July 30.
The Enterprise preview includes some of the business-focused features of Windows 8.1 that were not available in the Windows 8.1 preview, which Microsoft made available for download by any and all interested testers in late June.
Among the new features in the Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview build are:
Here's the full list of business-focused features Microsoft officials have said will be coming in Windows 8.1.
Here's the download link for the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview.
In a post to the Microsoft "Windows for Your Business" blog, officials noted that Windows 8.1 will remain under the same lifecycle policy as Windows 8, which means support will end on January 10, 2023.
Microsoft officials said earlier this summer that Windows 8.1 will be released to manufacturing by the end of August 2013. Officials still are declining to comment as to when existing Windows 8 users will be able to get their hands on the RTM bits.
Here's the good news... MicroCenter is giving computers away and the computers being given away are much stronger and faster than even two years ago. I just bought an HP refurb which appears new, 6GB ram, a tb disk, and an I3 processor running at 2.6 gz with Win 8 for $300, which is basically crazy. The computer is much faster than the one it replaced, and Win 8, so far, hasn't been hard to learn to work around.