Windows 8.1 Out Now

A few additional highlights:

·         Refined features: Windows 8.1 delivers a host of increased customisation refinements, functional improvements and new innovation, offering more ways to create an experience that is personal, mobile expressive and keeps pace with your life.

·         Windows Store open for app developers: App developers can now submit apps for Windows 8.1. For information on building and submitting Windows 8.1 apps, please visit the Windows Dev Centre.

·         New devices: Customers can go to http://www.windows.com/shop to learn about the wide variety of new Windows devices available now and coming throughout the holiday season to find the one that best fits their needs, and their budget.

·         Windows Embedded 8.1: Microsoft is simultaneously making Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry generally available today, offering Windows 8.1 technologies across a wide array of hardware, including specialised industry devices.

·         Windows Store Gift Card Availability: Also today, Microsoft began rolling out Windows Store Gift Cards to all Australian retailers to increase developer monetisation in the Windows Store and provide Windows users with more ways to purchase apps. Windows Store Gift Cards are a new way to buy apps, games and more in the Windows Store. Consumers can purchase Windows Store Gift Cards as digital codes online and at local retailers. For more information, please visit: www.microsoft.com/giftcard