Coming on the heels of the expiration of support for Windows XP, Microsoft has announced that users of Windows 8.1 who have not installed the newly-released Update 1 will no longer get security and other updates starting next month.
Update 1, released last week, is what MS has heretofore called a service pack. It includes several notable improvements for mouse-and-keyboard users, things that should have been there from the beginning. The crazy thing is that if users haven't upgraded to 8.1 (i.e., users with the original Windows 8), they will keep getting security updates as though nothing has happened.
From Forbes:
Microsoft Abandons Windows 8.1
Update 1, released last week, is what MS has heretofore called a service pack. It includes several notable improvements for mouse-and-keyboard users, things that should have been there from the beginning. The crazy thing is that if users haven't upgraded to 8.1 (i.e., users with the original Windows 8), they will keep getting security updates as though nothing has happened.
From Forbes:
Microsoft Abandons Windows 8.1