Windows Blue Poised to Become Windows 8.1

According to the rumor mill, the final name for Windows Blue will be Windows 8.1. Please let this be a late April Fools joke.

The client version of Blue, codenamed Windows Blue, is a refresh of Windows 8. It is expected to be released to manufacturing around August of this year. As I've blogged a few times, Microsoft is planning to position Blue as part of the Windows 8 wave, not as Windows 9.