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Windows 8.1 Pro Extreme 64bit 2014

Windows 8.1 Pro Extreme 64bit 2014 Site

In 2014, the world was angular. Skinny jeans. Flat design. The brutalist resurgence of less is more . And Windows 8.1 Pro Extreme was the operating system as a concept car—faster, leaner, and utterly convinced that the touchscreen was the future of the desktop.

Using Windows 8.1 Pro Extreme in 2014 was a solitary experience. You were not part of the herd. The herd was on Mac OS X Yosemite, gazing at translucent menu bars. The herd was on Windows 7, stubbornly refusing to change. Windows 8.1 Pro Extreme 64bit 2014

You could live entirely in the Desktop. But the Extreme edition tempted you. The Start Screen, when populated with high-resolution tiles—a live tile for weather, for news, for the roaring stock market of 2014—was hypnotic. Swiping from the left to cycle through modern "Metro" apps felt like shuffling a deck of holographic cards. It was schizophrenic. You’d be in a floating, borderless Internet Explorer 11 (the last good IE, purists argue), then hit Alt+F4 and drop back into a translucent, shadow-cast Explorer window that looked like it belonged on Windows 7. In 2014, the world was angular

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