Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Blue will be a free update, which users will be able to download as Windows 8.1 from the Windows 8 Store.

Internet Explorer 11 will use the ‘like Gecko’ command to appear as Mozilla Firefox, in an attempt to avoid non-standard IE specific CSS hacks.

Find out what’s new in the Windows Blue build leaked on torrent websites.

It’s been just about a month since Windows 8 was released, but Microsoft is already hard at work on its successor. Of course, this isn’t really surprising. However, what is surprising is that Microsoft might be gearing up to launch Windows 8′s successor as early as next year.