Microsoft only gives updates to users who update Windows 8.1

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Microsoft will require users to install Windows 8.1 Update 1 if they want further manufacturer support on Windows 8.1 machines. If you do not install the update, you do not have to expect any updates from next month.

Microsoft seems to be taking the hard approach: users who do not install the first update for Windows 8.1 will no longer receive updates, the software maker writes. “It is a mandatory update to keep Windows 8.1 current,” Microsoft said.

Windows 8.1 Update 1 will be released on Tuesday for all PCs running Windows 8.1 and will bring the necessary changes. For example, users of desktops and laptops automatically enter the desktop environment after startup and Windows 8 apps from the Windows Store can be pinned to the taskbar. The classic start menu that Microsoft showed at developer conference Build will not be in the update.

Support for Windows 8 will end at the end of January 2016, while extended support for both 8 and 8.1 will end in 2023. As far as we know, this is the first time Microsoft has chosen to discontinue support so soon after an update is released. to machines that are not up-to-date.

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