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[Martin Bickel <Martin.Bickel AT URZ.Uni-Heidelberg.DE>]

Good morning,

I would prefer the option 2. One button with the text "Windows 8, 8.1".

Have a nice day

Martin

Am 30.10.2013 08:41, schrieb Tomasz Wolniewicz:
> Actually, it turns out I was wrong about the MS version approach.
> Windows 8.1 is 6.3. Vista was 6.0, W7 - 6.1, W8 - 6.2 and now W 8.1 -
> 6.3. So Microsoft made it a full new version number. I find it rather
> silly, but perhaps they had no choice.
> 
> Fortunately the installer seem to work fine, i.e its detection methods
> do no choke on 6.3.
> So now we should decide how we want to treat 8.1, especially in CAT 1.1
> which will have system auto-detection.
> We seem to have three options:
> 1. treat 8.1 as a separate system giving it a separate button
> 2. put 8 and 8.1 tohether, but explicitely calling the button "Windows
> 8, 8.1"
> 3. do nothing and just leave things as they are, possibly adding some
> text in the info window saying that 8.1 is also covered.
> 
> Any opinions?
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> W dniu 2013-10-29 22:19, Tomasz Wolniewicz pisze:
>> Hi,
>> Since W 8.1 is just a sub-release of W8, we thought that it does not
>> make sense to make a separate button, but if you wind this misleading,
>> then perhaps we should just put 8 and 8.1 on the same button.
>>
>> On my tests W8 installers work just fine on w 8.1. I hope you do not
>> have a proof that it does not.
>> Tomasz
>>
>>
>> W dniu 29.10.2013, 22:12, Angel, Judy pisze:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there an installer for 8.1 expected any time?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Judy
>>>
> 

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