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On the same day Windows XP is shipped off to the bone yard. Windows guru Paul Thurrott has Tweeted that Windows 8.1 Update 1 is set
for general release on the 8th April 2014. This is the same day as
extended support for Microsoft Windows XP and Office 2003 ends.
Thurrott
also indicated that MSDN subscribers will get access to the OS update,
nearly a week earlier, on the 2nd April.
April 8th happens to be a 'Patch Tuesday', as Neowin reminds us. Non
MSDN folk will be notified and receive the update though the Windows
Update mechanism. We heard last weekend from Microsoft's Joe Belfiore
that the Windows 8.1 Update 1 was "coming in spring," but it's good to
have a proper date from such a well regarded source as Thurrott.
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