Bootcamp and Windows 8. bug

Hello,
I have a problem now with Bootcamp on Microsoft Windows 8.1.
- My hot keys for backlight access keys do not work. (Cursor blistered)
- The Quick Access brightness button works but nothing changes.
- Going through Windows menus, you can not adjust the brightness, if I decrease or increase, nothing happens.
- If I switch to battery mode, the brightness does not change.
- I turned off the automatic brightness adjustment, but it changes nothing.
- I have the impression that the battery management is not as well managed from Windows 8.1 over Windows 8.
Do you think that update Bootcamp will happen to address these issues? Do you have an alternative solution for the brightness and the backlight?
Thanking you

currently the latests bootcamp drivers don't officially support win8.1 only win8 so driver issues and absent features is to be expected
when they begin to officially support 8.1 you can just download the zip file and run the setup.exe to get the latests drivers

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