News. Softpedia- Even if all eyes have been on Windows XP this week, especially due to the fact that Microsoft announced that it would retire the 11-year-old OS in less than one year, new information emerged on Windows 8.1, the first overhaul of the rather disappointing Windows 8.
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.
