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Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, [6] and generally released for retail on October 26, 2012.
In Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016, the 30-day grace period has been removed. If the operating system is not activated, there is a watermark showing the edition of Windows or a message telling the user to activate Windows on desktop.
Super VGA (800x600), 32-bit color 1024 x 768 for Windows Store apps 1366 x 768 to snap apps Windows 8.1: Windows 10: 1 GHz or faster processor or SoC: 1 GB (x86) 2 GB (x64) 4 GB 16 GB (x86) 20 GB (x64) Super VGA (800x600), 32-bit color Windows Server 2016: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor 512 MB ECC memory 2 GB with Desktop Experience installed [26 ...
IA-32, x86-64: January 12, 2016 Windows 8.1: Blue [5] October 17, 2013 NT 6.3 Windows 8.1; Windows 8.1 Pro; Windows 8.1 Enterprise; 9600 IA-32, x86-64: January 10, 2023 May 23, 2014 [e] Windows 8.1 with Bing; Windows 10: Threshold [6] [f] July 29, 2015 NT 10.0 1507 (retroactively) Windows 10 Home; Windows 10 Pro; Windows 10 Education; Windows ...
Windows 8.1 was made available for download via MSDN and Technet and available as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows RT users via the Windows Store. A server version, Windows Server 2012 R2, was released on October 18, 2013. Windows 8.1 aimed to address complaints of Windows 8 users and reviewers on launch.
The Calculator app running in Windows 8.1. A number of apps are included in the standard installation of Windows 8, including Mail (an email client), People (a contact manager), Calendar (a calendaring app), Messaging (an IM client), Photos (an image viewer), Music (an audio player), Video (a video player), Camera (a webcam or digital camera client), SkyDrive, Reader (an e-book reader), and ...
Windows RT is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft and released alongside Windows 8 on October 26, 2012. It is a version of Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 built for the 32-bit ARM architecture (ARMv7), [6] designed to take advantage of the architecture's power efficiency to allow for longer battery life, to use system-on-chip (SoC) designs to allow for thinner devices and to provide a ...
It is the last version of Microsoft Windows that supports 32-bit processors (IA-32 and ARMv7-based) and 64-bit processors without POPCNT and SSE4.2 [30], the last non-IoT edition to officially lack a CPU whitelist [31] and support BIOS firmware, [32] [33] and the last version to officially support systems with TPM 1.2 or without any TPM at all.