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Update: Microsoft should either stick to a decision or make a better one in the first place. After receiving some expected backlash for not distributing the final version of Windows 8.1 to developers ...

The long-awaited (but not terribly well-received) and likely final suture in the Jekyll-and-Hyde version of Windows has just hit the MSDN site. For those of you who have MSDN accounts, it’s time to ...

Microsoft today offered its MSDN and TechNet subscribers access to the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) ISO builds of its latest flagship operating systems. Subscribers can download the RTM versions of ...

Windows 8 required users to learn a handful of concepts to get around and perform basic tasks. When you know what those concepts are—swiping from the edges, clicking in the corners, and a few ...

Microsoft's delayed release of Windows 8.1 came after an internal struggle and the outcry of developers who wanted the bits to develop Windows 8.1 apps for the GA launch in October. Over the past few ...

Microsoft released the Enterprise version of Windows 8.1 -- but not through the VLSC site, confusing volume license customers with Software Assurance agreements Causing no small amount of confusion, ...

The release of the first big update to Microsoft's desktop operating system Windows 8 is coming on quick, with the first software builds heading to developers today. The first release of this software ...

When Microsoft officially announced that Windows 8.1 had been released to manufacturing, the company said that MSDN and TechNet subscribers would have to wait until October 18th to try out the new ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Microsoft today issued the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition to its TechNet and MSDN subscribers. This release catches up with RTM releases of Windows 8.1 and ...