News - Windows 8.1 improves mobile productivity

[HEXUS]

Including features such as NFC tap-to pair printing and broadband thethering.

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[aidanjt]

God, the music tracks on that video clip was borderline traumatic. It's like a helldesk PTSD trigger, probably lasted as long as the original hold, too.

[Saracen]

Microsoft also took the opportunity to remind Windows XP users of the “need to begin testing and migrating to a modern operating system – like Windows 7 or Windows 8” before April 2014.

Oh, thank you for reminding me, MS. But, I do NOT "need" to test, let alone migrate, my XP systems. They are quite happy staying as they are, thank you.

[TheAnimus]

Oh, thank you for reminding me, MS. But, I do NOT "need" to test, let alone migrate, my XP systems. They are quite happy staying as they are, thank you.

The average joe does, if they want support.

Many people have publically networked machines which they fail to see the business rationale in upgrading due to ignorance. Reminding people too is a good thing.

[Brewster0101]

Its all very well seeing all these ideas for windows 8.1 update but

1) Most of these things should have been done ages ago,
2) Taken too long to get these updates out