Windows 8.1 is a slimming version of Win8

Computer Store News: Microsoft brought a lot of news about Windows 8.1 at TechEd 2013. One of the things that deserves attention is that Windows 8.1 is actually a feature-enhanced version and a compact version of Windows 8.

Windows 8.1 brings a lot of improvements and new features, which is beyond doubt. Even more interesting is that Michael Niehaus, senior director of marketing at Microsoft, pointed out at the conference that compared to Windows 8, the space usage of Win8.1 will be greatly reduced, the development team deleted some old components, temporary files and improved NTFS compression. Technology to free up more space for the user's computer.

Niehaus said that the Windows 8.1 preview installation requires 4GB of free space and does not cause the Windows 8 recovery partition to be overwritten.

Microsoft also confirmed today that Windows 8/RT upgrade to Windows 8.1 can be done with one click, all your settings, data and applications will be retained, but you will need to re-upgrade from Win8.1 Preview to the official version. Install the app.