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Windows 8.1 officially finished; nobody to get it until launch day

• T-A 13y ago
  ... or it just means that changes from the latest publicly available release preview are so small that there is no need for an updated preview...
• programminggeek 13y ago
  Why would Microsoft announce that the product is finished if they aren't willing to let people use it? That seems incredibly stupid in a world of digital distribution.
  • RossM 13y ago
    I suspect they may have taken the (good) decision to spare an extra month before release just for polish and QA, and then marketing wanted to publicise that as "we're really doing it properly this time". If that's the case, it might have been a better idea to announce that as part of launch PR.