Business users may take longer to get Windows 8.1 update

Windows 8.1 business users do not need to update to Windows 8.1 Update 1 before May to continue receiving updates. Instead, they have until August. This also applies to Windows Server 2012 R2 users.

Last week it was announced that Windows 8.1 users must update to Update 1, the update that came out last week. Otherwise they will not receive any further updates; Windows 8.1 without Update 1 is not supported separately. The ‘update requirement’ also applies to business users, but they will be given longer time, Microsoft now announced in an additional blog post.

Where consumers will no longer receive updates next month unless they install the update, companies will have until August to implement the update. The same is true for Windows Embedded 8.1 users and Windows Server R2 users. They also need to install Update 1 before August.

Windows 8.1 Update came out last week for all PCs running Windows 8.1 and brings the necessary changes. For example, users of desktops and laptops automatically enter the desktop environment after starting and Windows 8 apps from the Windows Store can be pinned to the taskbar. The classic start menu that Microsoft showed at the Build developer conference is not in the update.