What is Win8.1 single language version? How many versions are there in Win8.1?

        After the "Win8.1 RTM Simplified Chinese Single Language Edition Image Download Leaked", many readers are asking this "single language version". What is the difference between Windows 8.1 Simplified Chinese Single Language and Simplified Chinese? In fact, these articles have been written long ago, you can look at the previous two articles:
• "Pre-installed Win8 brand machine reinstallation system guide"
• "What is the type of Windows 8 version? 》(Look at the bottom two pictures)
Explain here:
Windows 8/8.1 has several versions:
1, Enterprise (Enterprise Edition)
2, ProfessionalWMC (Professional Edition) With media center)
3, Professional (Professional Edition, Note: There are retail version and major customer version)
4, Core (Normal Edition)
5, CoreSingleLanguage (single language version)
6, CoreCountrySpecific (specific country version)
Among them, Enterprise is a separate image, is a large customer version. In general, Core and Professional are in the same image, the retail version, which also makes the version that many people are waiting for now. The ProfessionalWMC version is upgraded from the Professional (by adding features), which is familiar to everyone.

▲Windows8 Single Language Edition
What is the last two versions?
CoreSingleLanguage (single language version) and CoreCountrySpecific (country-specific version) are actually variants of the Core version, generally only issued by pre-installation (ie OEM, have not seen retail), compared with the Core version The other language packs cannot be added after installation. These two versions are functionally different, but they are different versions and the keys are not universal. The pre-installed market in mainland China is generally CoreCountrySpecific (a country-specific version, which is "Win8 Chinese version" in China).
Although, the single-language version and the specific country version are castrated versions, but under normal circumstances, both versions can be upgraded by adding functions (Win8 is like this, Win8.1 should be like this, no Excluding Microsoft's strategy has changed). The upgrade path is:
CoreCountrySpecific→Core→Professional(Retail)→ProfessionalWMC.
CoreSingleLanguage→Core→Professional (Retail)→ProfessionalWMC.
That is to say, with a single language version, it means that you have both Core, Professional (Retail) & Professional WMC.
The use of DISM, you can get n in 1 by these two versions.
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