Windows 8.1 users are eagerly awaiting the next update, which, according to rumors, Microsoft will return full "Start" button. Today, the company officially called the release date update.
According to a blog post Microsoft, Windows 8.1 update will be released on August 12. It is argued that this is a minor update to the operating system. It will include the improvement of the touchpad (added three new settings), will allow devices to run Windows 8.1 as signal receivers Miracast and when working in SharePoint Online to remember user, eliminating the need to enter login and password. In Microsoft's own release called August Update - «the August update."
Previously, Microsoft said that familiar "Start" menu will be back next major update of the OS.Button the user can include in the OS settings by analogy with a choice of the starting screen - "Start" or desktop - which appeared in Windows 8.1. The panel will be a kind of combination of menu from Windows 7 and Windows 8 - will be located on the left part of the classical and the right - metro-tile applications. Option appears on the desktop and notebook PCs. At the same time, according to some, the return of a full menu "Start" can not take place in this update, Windows 8.1, and already in Windows 9.
According to some reports, the next release will be available with the ability to run applications in the Metro interface on your desktop. Now these applications open the screen "Start" and applied to the entire display. The user can share the display part, running multiple applications simultaneously.
It is remarkable that now, instead of issuing major updates every few months or even years, Microsoft rebuilt on a more dynamic release updates, which is designed to allow better compete with Apple products, and Google. Build Windows 8.1 Update 1 , recall, debuted on April 8.