Your familiar desktop:

• From the Start screen, you're just a click away from the familiar Windows desktop you know, so you can do the stuff you've always done.

Your own unique start screen:

• Personalize your Start screen with your favorite news, friends, social networks, and apps.
• Customizable colors and backgrounds and four different sizes of tiles make your Windows as unique as you are.

Mouse, keyboard, and now touch:

• Windows 8.1 Pro works with different types of devices, including touch, mouse-and-keyboard, or both.
• Discover fast and fluid ways to switch between apps, move things around, and go smoothly from one place to another.

Enhanced data protection:

• Windows 8.1 Pro offers enhanced data protection, the ability to access your desktop remotely, and connectivity to your corporate or school networks via Domain join.

The apps you want:

• In addition to great built-in apps for email, people, photos, and video editing, you can also download thousands of popular apps from the Windows Store, including Netflix, ESPN, Skype, and Halo: Spartan Assault.

Your Office, your way:

• Experience Office at its best on Windows 8.1 devices. Discover new and better ways to create, edit, and browse-using a keyboard, pen, or touchscreen.
• Don't forget: Office is not part of Windows 8.1 Pro.

Processor (32-bit):

• 1 GHz or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2

Hard Disk:

• 16 GB space

Memory:

• 1 GB RAM

• Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
• To access the Windows Store and to download and run apps, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768
• To snap apps, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768
• Microsoft account required for some features
• Internet access
• Watching DVDs requires separate playback software
• Some games and programs might require a graphics card compatible with DirectX 10 or higher for optimal performance
• BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive
• BitLocker requires either Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 or a USB flash drive
• Client Hyper-V requires a 64-bit system with second level address translation (SLAT) capabilities and additional 2 GB of RAM
• Miracast requires a display adapter which supports Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.3, and a Wi-Fi adapter that supports Wi-Fi Direct
• Wi-Fi Direct Printing requires a Wi-Fi adapter that supports Wi-Fi Direct and a device that supports Wi-Fi Direct Printing
• InstantGo works only with computers designed for Connected Standby

Note:

• To use touch, you need a tablet or a monitor that supports multitouch
• Secure boot requires firmware that supports UEFI v2.3.1 Errata B and has the Microsoft Windows Certification Authority in the UEFI signature database
• Windows Media Center license sold separately

Your familiar desktop:

• From the Start screen, you're just a click away from the familiar Windows desktop you know, so you can do the stuff you've always done.

Your own unique start screen:

• Personalize your Start screen with your favorite news, friends, social networks, and apps.
• Customizable colors and backgrounds and four different sizes of tiles make your Windows as unique as you are.

Mouse, keyboard, and now touch:

• Windows 8.1 Pro works with different types of devices, including touch, mouse-and-keyboard, or both.
• Discover fast and fluid ways to switch between apps, move things around, and go smoothly from one place to another.

Enhanced data protection:

• Windows 8.1 Pro offers enhanced data protection, the ability to access your desktop remotely, and connectivity to your corporate or school networks via Domain join.

The apps you want:

• In addition to great built-in apps for email, people, photos, and video editing, you can also download thousands of popular apps from the Windows Store, including Netflix, ESPN, Skype, and Halo: Spartan Assault.

Your Office, your way:

• Experience Office at its best on Windows 8.1 devices. Discover new and better ways to create, edit, and browse-using a keyboard, pen, or touchscreen.
• Don't forget: Office is not part of Windows 8.1 Pro.

Your familiar desktop:

• From the Start screen, you're just a click away from the familiar Windows desktop you know, so you can do the stuff you've always done.

Your own unique start screen:

• Personalize your Start screen with your favorite news, friends, social networks, and apps.
• Customizable colors and backgrounds and four different sizes of tiles make your Windows as unique as you are.

Mouse, keyboard, and now touch:

• Windows 8.1 Pro works with different types of devices, including touch, mouse-and-keyboard, or both.
• Discover fast and fluid ways to switch between apps, move things around, and go smoothly from one place to another.

Enhanced data protection:

• Windows 8.1 Pro offers enhanced data protection, the ability to access your desktop remotely, and connectivity to your corporate or school networks via Domain join.

The apps you want:

• In addition to great built-in apps for email, people, photos, and video editing, you can also download thousands of popular apps from the Windows Store, including Netflix, ESPN, Skype, and Halo: Spartan Assault.

Your Office, your way:

• Experience Office at its best on Windows 8.1 devices. Discover new and better ways to create, edit, and browse-using a keyboard, pen, or touchscreen.
• Don't forget: Office is not part of Windows 8.1 Pro.

Your familiar desktop:

• From the Start screen, you're just a click away from the familiar Windows desktop you know, so you can do the stuff you've always done.

Your own unique start screen:

• Personalize your Start screen with your favorite news, friends, social networks, and apps.
• Customizable colors and backgrounds and four different sizes of tiles make your Windows as unique as you are.

Mouse, keyboard, and now touch:

• Windows 8.1 Pro works with different types of devices, including touch, mouse-and-keyboard, or both.
• Discover fast and fluid ways to switch between apps, move things around, and go smoothly from one place to another.

Enhanced data protection:

• Windows 8.1 Pro offers enhanced data protection, the ability to access your desktop remotely, and connectivity to your corporate or school networks via Domain join.

The apps you want:

• In addition to great built-in apps for email, people, photos, and video editing, you can also download thousands of popular apps from the Windows Store, including Netflix, ESPN, Skype, and Halo: Spartan Assault.

Your Office, your way:

• Experience Office at its best on Windows 8.1 devices. Discover new and better ways to create, edit, and browse-using a keyboard, pen, or touchscreen.
• Don't forget: Office is not part of Windows 8.1 Pro.

Your familiar desktop:

• From the Start screen, you're just a click away from the familiar Windows desktop you know, so you can do the stuff you've always done.

Your own unique start screen:

• Personalize your Start screen with your favorite news, friends, social networks, and apps.
• Customizable colors and backgrounds and four different sizes of tiles make your Windows as unique as you are.

Mouse, keyboard, and now touch:

• Windows 8.1 Pro works with different types of devices, including touch, mouse-and-keyboard, or both.
• Discover fast and fluid ways to switch between apps, move things around, and go smoothly from one place to another.

Enhanced data protection:

• Windows 8.1 Pro offers enhanced data protection, the ability to access your desktop remotely, and connectivity to your corporate or school networks via Domain join.

The apps you want:

• In addition to great built-in apps for email, people, photos, and video editing, you can also download thousands of popular apps from the Windows Store, including Netflix, ESPN, Skype, and Halo: Spartan Assault.

Your Office, your way:

• Experience Office at its best on Windows 8.1 devices. Discover new and better ways to create, edit, and browse-using a keyboard, pen, or touchscreen.
• Don't forget: Office is not part of Windows 8.1 Pro.