Windows 8.1 review: Latest edition should start to win over consumers and the enterprise.

IT PRO ^ | 10/24/2013

[Blueflag]

No. it won’t.

I tried this past weekend to upgrade my Win 8 Pro laptop.

Install failed twice. Got all the way to reboot your PC, and it failed - restored me back to Win 8 PRO.

FAIL again MS. You suck.

[dfwgator]

That Metro interface is just pure ugly. I think of "Idiocracy" every time I see it

[coon2000]

ping

[GeronL]

Yep. there is definitely a resemblance.

[DonaldC]

“And another thing, why force the Store concept? Why couldn’t 8.1 be done through..da da da daaaaaaa, Windows Update?”

Yea, that store thing and requiring users to set up that Microsoft account has sure confused users at a non-profit I help support on the side. I agree, terrible idea.

[TexasRepublic]

Guess again. Microsoft and the Feds can all burn in Hell together. I’m not drinking their poison. I have been running Linux for the past four years with some minor inconvenience, but no regrets.

Now, if I could just find an alternative to medicine in the United States once our options here run out. Which foreign countries would offer the best combination of safety and affordability to American tourists?

[GeronL]

Too bad the people who bought the Forrestal for a penny couldn’t turn it into a floating hospital instead of selling it for scrap

[Cyman]

I had thrown out my Windows 8 for my Samsung Slate but with 8.1 release I reinstalled. Not much changed unless I am overlooking fixes for the problems I have. Biggest problem with my touchscreen tablet is that once you tap on any window the keyboard does not pop up when tapping on an input window. You have to go to the bottom of the screen and tap on the keyboard icon. Then that keyboard is HUGE and I do not see a way to customize it. The alternate OSK(on screen keyboard) is the opposite, tiny and again need to separately tap up when trying to input data.

[pluvmantelo]

You can still purchase Win 7 computers off the shelf.

[KevinB]

I guess I’m going to find out if it breaks Start8.

It will not. I'm using Start8 with 8.1 on two computers.

[Stentor]

Thanks.

[PoloSec]

Ping

[DesScorp]

"I’ll be on Windows 7 for many years to come."

So will the business world. We're phasing out the last of our XP machines right now, and everything we're doing... from desktops to kiosk machines... is Win 7 based. No one in the Enterprise seems to think 8 is a good idea for the workplace. I think 7 will be the standard for some time to come.

[DesScorp]

"You can still purchase Win 7 computers off the shelf."

It's getting harder to, though. The Win 7 laptops I just orded from Dell were custom orders. Microsoft is definitely presurring OEM's to take away the Win 7 option. Same thing for servers. Just a few months back, you could choose 2008 R2. Now Dell makes you buy a 2012 license and downgrade. Looks like they're going to do this on the desktop as well, very soon. If you want 7, you're going to have to get 8 and exercise your downgrade rights.

[Still Thinking]

So all this hype about how 8.1's going to fix a mistake they had to be complete and utter morons to have made in the first place, several months waiting, and what you get is a PICTURE OF THE FIX??? Bite me, Microsoft! [eyeroll]

[Still Thinking]

Verdict: If you're on Healthcare.gov we definitely recommend updating to Healthcare.gov 2.o as soon as possible. It rectifies a number of issues which plagued the original release and whilst it's not perfect, Healthcare.gov 2.0 is a step in the right direction.

They ought to rectify Healthcare.gov, and in fact Obamacare in general, but there's just so many rectums to chose from.

[MarineBrat]

>>She supposedly looked down and said how about micro soft?

:)

I recall the one where his wife was filing for divorce because after several years they had still not consummated their marriage. The judge was amazed and asked why. The wife responded “all he does is stand at the foot of the bed and tell me how good it’s going to be.”

It was easier to “get” if you were around in the years leading up to Windows 95. :)

[tacticalogic]

Q: What's the difference between a used car salesman and a computer sofware salesman?

A: The used car salesman knows when he's lying to you.

[Dick Vomer]

I agree. I’ve got Snow Leopard and 6 Macs, 6 Iphones, 1 Ipad at home..... and one HP POS that has tons of family photos that my wife refuses to change over to the Mac because she can’t figure out how to get the photos out of the peripheral drive she stored them on and for some reason the Mac doesn’t “see” them.

I’m not messing with Mavericks because everything I have works.