Windows 8.1: What's in a name (and why it matters)

JMH · Apr 6, 2013

The more information that leaks about Windows 8's expected summer upgrade, dubbed "Blue" by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts said today.

And with very few exceptions, customers don't have answers.

The latest tidbit about Windows Blue -- disclosed earlier this week -- was that the upgrade would be named "Windows 8.1," a convention reminiscent of rival Apple's system of numbering its versions of OS X as, for example, 10.7 for Lion, 10.8 for Mountain Lion.

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Windows 8.1: What's in a name (and why it matters)

JMH

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