{"id":7561,"date":"2014-05-12T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2014-05-12T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:21:26","slug":"microsoft-extends-windows-8-1-update-requirement-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsoft-extends-windows-8-1-update-requirement-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft extends Windows 8.1 Update requirement deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1>Microsoft extends Windows 8.1 Update requirement deadline for consumer security updates from May 12 to June 10<\/h1>\n<p>Microsoft today extended the deadline for Windows 8.1 users to keep receiving security updates. The Windows 8.1 Update requirement has been moved up by about a month, from May 12 to June 10. Both days coincide with the day before their respective months\u2019 Patch Tuesdays.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft notes that while users with Automatic Update turned on have been receiving the Windows 8.1 Update over the last few weeks, many still haven\u2019t received the update. While the company doesn\u2019t say so explicitly, it\u2019s clear not enough users have manually upgraded yet. \u201cWe\u2019re confident that within the next month, the majority of the remaining customers who haven\u2019t updated their devices to the Windows 8.1 Update will be able to do so,\u201d Microsoft says.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that the new deadline applies to Microsoft\u2019s consumer customers. Business customers have already received their own extension, from May 12 to August 12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/microsoft\/2014\/05\/12\/microsoft-extends-windows-8-1-update-requirement-deadline-consumer-security-updates-may-12-june-10\/?utm_sou\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SOURCE: THENEXTWEB<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft extends Windows 8.1 Update requirement deadline for consumer security updates from May 12 to June 10 Microsoft today extended the deadline for Windows 8.1 users to keep receiving security updates. The Windows 8.1 Update requirement has been moved up by about a month, from May 12 to June 10. Both days coincide with the day before their\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsoft-extends-windows-8-1-update-requirement-deadline\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7563,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions\/7563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}