{"id":827,"date":"2013-05-14T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2019-07-27T20:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T02:08:14","slug":"windows-8-1-blue-to-be-released-as-a-free-update-for-windows-8-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/windows-8-1-blue-to-be-released-as-a-free-update-for-windows-8-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 &#8220;Blue&#8221; To Be Released as a Free Update for Windows 8 Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced today on their Windows blog that Windows 8.1 &#8220;Blue&#8221; will be a free update for current Windows 8 users:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareholder.com\/visitors\/event\/build2\/MediaPresentation.cfm?MediaID=59135&#038;MediaUserID=0&#038;player=1\">JP Morgan Technology, Media &amp; Telecom Conference in Boston<\/a>, Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as \u201cWindows Blue\u201d will be called <b>Windows 8.1<\/b>and will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike Service Packs for previous versions of Windows, Windows 8.1 introduces a lot of visual and functional changes. The public preview for Windows 8.1 will be available on June 26, with an RTM release scheduled at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows\/b\/bloggingwindows\/archive\/2013\/05\/14\/windows-keeps-getting-better.aspx\">Blogging Windows &#8211; Windows Keeps Getting Better<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced today on their Windows blog that Windows 8.1 &#8220;Blue&#8221; will be a free update for current Windows 8 users: Today at the JP Morgan Technology, Media &amp; Telecom Conference in Boston, Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as \u201cWindows Blue\u201d will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,102,25,101,144],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-8-1","tag-windows-blue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}