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1. CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 INSTALL
2. CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 UPDATE
3. CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 SOFTWARE
4. CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 WINDOWS 8.1

Perhaps this is speculation too far, but this pair of changes almost suggests that many Windows users haven't changed the way they use the operating system-or their computers-since the mid 1990s. This is a mechanism that has existed in Windows since Vista: bring up the Start menu/screen (whether by hitting a hardware Windows key on a keyboard or tablet bezel, a hot corner, or the taskbar button), and type. The same effect can be achieved simply by typing the search term you're interested in, making the button superfluous.

CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 WINDOWS 8.1

Hitting the button brings up the normal Windows 8.1 search pane, with a text box to type into. The search button, again replicating a charm, is also a little surprising. This goes doubly for laptop users, many of whom simply sleep their systems by shutting the lid and don't bother shutting down anyway. On the face of it, at least, this should make the on-screen button fairly unimportant. Any system on the market today can be shut down by pressing the same button that you used to turn it on. While early PCs had dumb power switches that unceremoniously cut the power to the machine, the use of electronic power buttons-buttons that can tell the operating system to perform an orderly system shutdown before killing the power-have been a feature since the introduction of the ATX specification in late 1995. What's a bit strange is that people are even looking for it in the first place.Įnlarge / The new buttons give instant access to features that are already instantly accessible. The problem with the charm is that it's hard to find for some people. The former button replicates the button found inside the settings charm, and it is a bit of an oddity. On the Start screen itself, there's now a button for power options (shut down, reboot, sleep) and search. The changes are all focused around mouse and keyboard users, to make certain features more accessible to the mouse. Then there's a visible side: a bunch of user interface changes as Microsoft continues to try to win over desktop users (especially, one presumes, in the corporate world) and encourage them to use Windows 8.x, amid continued claims that the operating system isn't designed for desktop users.

The shrunk requirements are part of Microsoft's efforts to get Windows onto ever-cheaper tablet hardware. For the most part, Windows 8.1 tablets have minimum specs of 2GB and 32GB, because of the size of the operating system.

First, there's an invisible side: with this update, Windows 8.1 is supposed to run reasonably well on systems with 1GB RAM and 16GB of mass storage.

CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 UPDATE

Just because it was distributed by Windows Update doesn't mean that this is, necessarily, the final build, but it does present a good opportunity to see what Microsoft is actually planning to deliver.

CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 INSTALL

To get Windows Update to install it, you had to create a special (undocumented, secret) registry key to indicate that you were in a particular testing group only then were the updates displayed and downloadable.Īfter news of this spread, Microsoft removed the hefty-700MB-update from its servers, but not before it had spread across all manner of file-sharing sites. The Spring update to Windows 8.1, known as Update 1, was briefly available from Windows Update earlier this week.

CIV 6 PATCH WINDOWS 8.1 SOFTWARE

Leaks of upcoming versions of Microsoft's software are nothing new, but it's a little surprising when the source is Microsoft itself.