Windows 8 Gets A Post-RTM Update
The update improves battery life, media playback and general compatibility
Microsoft announced a post-RTM update for Windows 8 that will bring a number of improvements to the company’s new operating system ahead of its full launch on October 26. This update, which follows a similar update to virtually all of the built-in Windows 8 Metro apps earlier this week, will bring improvements in broad areas of performance, power management and battery efficiency, media playback, and compatibility.
As Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky notes in yesterday’s announcement, Microsoft often shipped similar updates to its OEMs ahead of the launch of a new version of Windows. They would often create dozens of changes for each OEM for these new PCs. Those changes would be deployed during manufacturing of those PCs and thus would be invisible to customers. Most users, however, would only see these updates after Microsoft released the first service pack for any given version of Windows.
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