Microsoft execs have acknowledged publicly what's been rumored for months: An update to Windows 8.1 is coming to users this spring.



From All About Microsoft:

For the first time publicly, Microsoft officials are acknowledging that the company is working on an update to Windows 8.1 that will be out this spring.
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While we Microsoft watchers have been writing about the so-called Windows 8.1 Update 1 for months, and builds of the update have been leaking for weeks, February 23 was the first time that Microsoft execs officially commented on the coming release.

At Microsoft's press event at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Microsoft went public with some of the already-known features coming in the update that is meant to improve Windows 8.1's usability and acceptance by mouse/keyboard users.

  Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 8.1 spring update