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Windows 8.1
Out of support since January 2023 — unlike Windows 7 or 10, Microsoft never offered any Extended Security Updates program for 8.1 at all, consumer or business.
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Plattform
Windows
Veröffentlicht
October 2013
Support endet
January 10, 2023 (no Extended Security Updates program was ever offered for it)
Systemanforderungen
1 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit), 16GB-20GB storage, DirectX 9 GPU with WDDM driver.
Windows 8.1 was Microsoft's course-correction release after Windows 8's controversial tablet-first interface, restoring a Start button and letting the system boot directly to the desktop. It reached its final end of support on January 10, 2023, and notably, Microsoft never made any Extended Security Updates program available for it the way it did for Windows 7 and later Windows 10 -- once support ended, there was no paid path to keep receiving patches at all. It's still occasionally found on older tablets and budget laptops from its era that were never upgraded.
Veröffentlichungsdaten, Support-Zeiträume und Systemanforderungen stammen von den offiziellen Lifecycle-Seiten von Microsoft und Apple (oben verlinkt) — bestätige diese Angaben immer dort, bevor du dich für eine Produktions-/Unternehmensentscheidung darauf verlässt, da sich Support-Richtlinien gelegentlich ändern.