TechHive: Windows 8.1 Preview will die soon, Microsoft warns

TechHive TechHive helps you find your tech sweet spot. We guide you to products you'll love and show you how to get the most out of them.

Your small business full-time assistant Join the 500,000+ people using Shoeboxed to streamline accounting and bookkeeping. Turn a pile of receipts into digital data to save time, money and hassle. From our sponsors

Windows 8.1 Preview will die soon, Microsoft warns Dec 21st 2013, 16:10, by Gregg Keizer Microsoft is reminding customers that the Windows 8.1 Preview will conk out on January 15, and it's time to shell out for the full edition. "Now that Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 have been generally available for a while, it's time to get all your remaining devices that are still running Windows 8.1 Preview or Windows RT 8.1 Preview to the final GA release before the Preview release expires," Microsoft said in a short post to a company blog last week. "GA," for General Availability, is a label Microsoft uses to denote the final, shipping version of a product. "You have no right to use the software after this expiration date [of January 15, 2014]," stated the preview's license ( download PDF) "Starting from the expiration date, you may not be able to access any unsaved data used with the software." To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: windows8.1newbackground_primary-100043944-small.jpg

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

• Tweet
• Share
• Share
• Share
• Share

Sign up here with your email