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Windows 8 1 Update 2 Rumors Release Date Features and More

According to the news, Windows 8.1 Update 2 will land on August 12. Now this report hasn’t been confirmed by Microsoft, but media sources are claiming that they have confirmed the rumor. In addition, most people think of is as a truth. In fact, this report has been confirmed by Russian site PC Portal.
Rumors said Microsoft would release Windows 8.1 Update 2 around July 29.Rumors said......29, however, it finally turns out to be put off for two weeks

It is said that Windows 8.1 Update 2 has few new features. It might be released as Windows 8 patch update. Besides, the earlier rumors had suggested that Windows 8.1 Update 2 could be released in fall holiday season, which may reflect a release-to-manufacturing schedule.

Release date:

Windows 8.1 Update 2 will be released on August 12 although this has not been accepted by Microsoft.

Price:

If you have install Windows 8.1 Update 1 on your computer, you can upgrade to Windows 8.1 Update 2 free. Even if you don’t install Windows 8.1 update 1, you can also get Windows 8.1 update 2 at a low price.

Features:

Windows 8.1 Update 1 brought us some surprises on April, providing a number of useful tweaks, like the search button on Start screen, and a return to more familiar mouse etc.
What will Windows 8.1 update 2 bring for us? As Windows 9 thread will be released in Sep 2014, windows 8.1 update 2 wont see too many changes on the basis of windows 8.1 update 1. One thing we should care about is that the start menu will be back in advance instead of coming back with Windows 9.
A leaked screenshot may prove what Microsoft said about the time when they released Windows 8.1 Update 1 in April. The start menu will be back in the coming Windows update.
Let us expect more new features in the coming Windows 8.1 update 2.

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Wubi will support Lubuntu in release 12 04

Lubuntu
Coming with 12.04 precise pangolin, Wubi will support Lubuntu. Preliminary tests using the daily live CD and this wubi.exe are successful. Note you have to logon blind for now while bug 918401 is sorted out.

I found that Lubuntu ran very well on my junky old test laptop - while it was very sluggish with 11.10 Ubuntu. So Lubuntu might be a better option for older machines.

If youre going to be testing Wubi remember to use zsync to keep your test ISOs up to date. Its a great tool.

Other wishlist
Itd be nice if Wubi could install from a USB stick with 12.04 - since the desktop CD ISO is supposed to be around 750MB it wont fit on a CD so I expect many people will try with USB. Waiting on longstanding bug 461566.

Also, itd be nice if some of the obscure error messages that have appeared since 11.10 could be replaced by human-understandable text. For example "WindowsBackend object has no attribute iso-path". I suppose its no better than Permission denied being used indiscriminately, but I suppose we were used to that.

For the preinstalled image install method, Id like to see an easier way to override the kernel boot options for users with ATI or NVIDIA cards requiring nomodeset.

From a personal point of view Id like to have an installable Wubi migration gui app ready - but its not looking like it will happen in time.

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