Windows 8.1: Here at last, but is it good enough? Speak your brains - Register

Steps to Take Before Choosing a Business Continuity Partner Live Chat The de-cloaking of Windows 8.1 at Microsoft's BUILD conference was greeted with cheers from attendees as the company finally confirmed changes following a major U-turn. Yes, there's a Start Button but it's really no more than an onscreen version of your keyboard's Windows key. Metro loosens the ideological shackles: you can skip booting straight to desktop and you can scale Windows Store apps to arbitrary sizes, just like any normal versions of Windows. Not that there was anything wrong with Windows 8, you understand. Microsoft is just, er, "refining the blend", according to chief executive Steve Ballmer using a coffee metaphor. "Customers who have Windows 8 on touch systems are much, much happier than other Windows 8 customers," Ballmer said of Windows 8 until now, "and in fact they're even happier than our Windows 7 customers." Yes, folks, everything is beautiful, gorgeous, delightful, beautiful and absolutely beautiful. Or is it? Join All-About-Microsoft blogger Mary-Jo Foley, IT Writing's Tim Anderson back from BUILD, Reg software ed Gavin Clarke and Reg readers for the post-BUILD Live Chat. Have you downloaded the Windows 8.1 preview and what do you think? Has Microsoft done enough and are the bad days of Metro behind us? Is anybody really using RT and will Outlook RT help leverage Office for RT for the ARM slablets? We'll also chat about everything else we see, hear and pick up on Microsoft, Windows 8.1, RT, Office and Azure. We'll be Live Chatting on 2 July at 2pm BST, 9am Eastern, 6pm Pacific. Doors will open at 1.30 so you can line up your questions. As ever, you can register in the window below. ® Steps to Take Before Choosing a Business Continuity Partner via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE_zciW5zEmsxGqDJ52EYuYFmcDRA&url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/28/live_chat_build_windows_eight_point_one/

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