{"id":89163,"date":"2013-10-17T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=89163"},"modified":"2013-10-18T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T07:07:40","slug":"windows-8-1-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/89163-windows-8-1-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> announced on Thursday, 17 October 2013, that Windows 8.1 is now available for download from the Windows Store.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also announced that the limited support period for Windows 8 will end on 18 October 2015. Microsoft stresses that this is for security and stability reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 users are able to download the update to Windows 8.1 through the Windows Store for free, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>Users on Windows 7 can buy the upgrade to Windows 8.1 for $119.99 through Microsoft\u2019s online store from Friday, 18 October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also announced that a packaged DVD product will go on sale at retail locations around the world on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Microsoft store page, Windows 8.1 is \u201cnot designed for installation on devices running Windows XP or Windows Vista\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Those running older versions of Windows will first have to upgrade to Windows 8, after which they can upgrade to Windows 8.1 for free, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Microsoft and Windows 8.1 news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/88943-windows-phone-8-update.html\"><strong>Windows Phone 8 update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87671-bill-gates-says-control-alt-delete-was-a-mistake.html\"><strong>Bill Gates says Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87242-windows-8-1-release-date-pricing-announced.html\"><strong>Windows 8.1 release date, pricing announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/79535-windows-8-1-ui-fixes-showcased.html\"><strong>Windows 8.1 UI fixes showcased<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of Microsoft\u2019s desktop and tablet operating system is available for download<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":79545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,123,19781],"class_list":["post-89163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89165,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89163\/revisions\/89165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}