Windows 8 build 8441

Windows 8 build 8441 is a build of Windows 8, which was released to Microsoft partners through the Ecosystem Engineering Access Program (EEAP) around late June 2012.

The build was first seen under the Pro and Preinstallation Environment SKUs; the Preinstallation Environment has been publicly available since 2015, and the full x64 Dutch version was later uploaded to BetaArchive on 11 June 2020. A variant of this build's Preinstallation Environment under the Simplified Chinese language was supposedly uploaded to the Chinese website BetaWorld on 21 February 2018, but at the moment this cannot be confirmed or refuted as it is not publicly available.

It is the last available build of Windows 8 to feature the Windows wordmark on the boot screen, as the next set of builds would change it to instead use the final RTM design, which simply features the 2012 Windows logo.

Changes

 * The setup background color has been updated to that found in the RTM.
 * Color is enabled for window borders by default and can no longer be disabled.
 * Introduced the Windows 8 sound scheme, which would be used up to Windows 10 build 10064.

Bugs and quirks

 * Certain places contains pseudo-localized strings.