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Windows 8.1 was made available for download via MSDN and Technet and available as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows RT users via the Windows Store. A server version, Windows Server 2012 R2, was released on October 18, 2013. Windows 8.1 aimed to address complaints of Windows 8 users and reviewers on launch.
Windows 8.1 includes improved support for high-resolution monitors. A desktop scaling feature now helps resize the items on the desktop to solve the visibility problems on screens with a very high native resolution. Windows 8.1 also introduces per-display DPI scaling, and provides an option to scale to 200%. File Explorer
Windows 8.1 retains a per-application option to disable DPI virtualization of an app. Windows 8.1 also adds the ability for each display to use an independent DPI setting, although it calculates this automatically for each display. Windows 8.1 prevents a user from forcibly enabling DPI virtualization of an application.
Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and was made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012. [6] Nearly three months after its initial release, it finally made its first retail appearance on October 26, 2012.
Preview builds of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server (available from the Windows Insider program) feature a dark green background instead of a blue one. [24] [25] [22] Windows 3.1, 95, and 98 supports customizing the color of the screen, [26] whereas in the Windows NT family , the color is hard-coded.
The following is a list of new features for Windows Display driver development in Windows 10, version 1709: Shader Model 6.1, adding support view instancing and barycentric semantics. Display ColorSpace Transform DDIs provide additional control over color space transforms applied in the post-composition display pipeline.
Multilingual User Interface. Comparison of Windows 7 Start Menu with English selected in the left image, and Japanese selected in the right. Multilingual User Interface ( MUI) enables the localization of the user interface of an application. MUI is provided by Microsoft as an integrated feature of its operating system Windows 11 down to Windows ...
WoW64. In computing on Microsoft platforms, WoW64 ( W indows 32-bit o n W indows 64 -bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system capable of running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. [1] It is included in all 64-bit versions of Windows, except in Windows Server Server Core where it is an optional component, and Windows Nano Server ...