Posted on 04/16/2014 12:16:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Microsoft has been on a roll lately. Office for iOS (and soon Android), free Windows licenses for small devices, universal Windows and Windows Phone apps, Siri rival Cortana, even a promise to eventually return the start menu before Windows 9. But when it comes to Windows 8, it seems the company has a permanently loaded pistol aimed squarely at its feet.
So it fits that just one week on from the launch of “Windows 8.1 Update 1” (the smart upgrade mouse and keyboard users have long awaited) stupidity would strike once again.
“Windows 8.1 Update is a cumulative update to Windows 8.1,” said Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager Ben Hunter in an apparently innocuous blog post aimed at IT professionals. Then came the clanger: “It also becomes the new servicing baseline for Windows 8.1, so next month’s security updates (on May 13th, the next ‘Patch Tuesday’) will be dependent on Windows 8.1 Update.”
In English: If you have not installed Update 1 by 13 May, then Windows 8.1 will no longer receive security updates until you do. This is your 4 week countdown warning. …
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Why would you not want to take the important update?
The update is for x64 bit. How do I find that out? I have 8.1 installed.
If your machine is running windows 8 you have 64 bit. My advice is almost always to take OS updates.
Thank You.
No problem. Have a great day!
Go to: PC Info -> PC Info
This will confirm 64-bit or 32-bit.
Thank You.
This is ridiculous.
Shipped versions of 8.1 will have the update.
Besides, who the heck DOESN’T have their PC connected (wired or wireless) for the frequent updates, regardless how you apply them?
Unlicensed owners.
“I don’t think people who use Apple care one way or the other about Microsoft. We are humored by the disaster known as Microsoft.”
I use them both. I am typing this on a Macbook Air. I have PC’s with Win 7 and Win 8 as well. I like my iPhone and iPads, too. Different tools that do better at some jobs than others. I would never replace my Windows based PC’s for all Apple stuff.
As far as Apple users not caring one way or the other....that just ignores all of the millions of posts by Apple fanboys about how Microsoft is a “disaster”. Kind of like, well...yours.
Guess I was lucky...never had one in 5 years or so on my laptop.
IT's A DESKTOP!!!! Dial Up is all that is available where I live. Believe me if high speed were here I'd use it and Dial up worked well on XP.
Even if I had HughestNet the W 8 "CLOUD" and chit Chat programs with MS Corp partners built into W-8 would take a good chunk of the allowed bandwidth. Many persons do not have access to high speed. MS ignores that to make this stinking WINDOWS 8 X-BOX Cross Bread Abomination.
I do have a laptop unfortunately with now unsupported XP I used when I needed to go somewhere for high speed WIFI.
IT's A DESKTOP!!!! Dial Up is all that is available where I live. Believe me if high speed were here I'd use it and Dial up worked well on XP.
Even if I had HughestNet the W 8 "CLOUD" and chit Chat programs with MS Corp partners built into W-8 would take a good chunk of the allowed bandwidth. Many persons do not have access to high speed. MS ignores that to make this stinking WINDOWS 8 X-BOX Cross Bread Abomination.
I do have a laptop unfortunately with now unsupported XP I used when I needed to go somewhere for high speed WIFI.
As of June, 2013 over 93% of US had broadband coverage of at least 3mbps.
One cannot expect MS (or any business) to dumbdown their technology to fit less than 7% of the nation.
As an aside, over 91% had availability of 10Mmbps or greater.
Sorry for your tech limitations but it’s no excuse to rant on MS (and other businesses) for evolving their technology.
Yes technically 93% of the US may have coverage of at least 3mbps available to them. Not how much a month can they actually use? Factor into that this weeks W8 900 MB Update. Hugesnet users would have to watch what W8 consumes both in upload and download very closely.
The Cable Companies are at a halt as far as expansion and AT&T does not upgrades anywhere unless it is likely a massive cable or SLICK failure. Hey I can get high speed here. I can call Ma Bell and order a Data circuit. Hundreds of dollars a month just to use W8? BTW a data circuit is not the same configuration as DSL. My dad used to work on data circuits.
Should read : Now how much bandwidth a month can they actually use?
Nothing terribly unusual about that. Once you’ve got an SR (which is what this is) out you don’t make patches to pre-SR code, it’s an unnecessary doubling of testing effort. MS has been following this standard at least since they included automatic updates in Windows, every moderately sane company in software follows it. The only thing any writes for both base and SR is the next SR which are usually (but not always) cumulative.
Actually it equals 5 HOURS. Pretty easy overnight/ at work update.
At times I use a WiFi spot that offers 512Kb - plenty fast for my Win8.1 including downloading 200MB files with no problem.
...just sayin’
50k is connect speed. What the actual download speed is going to average is at tops 15-20 MB per hour. 900/15 = 60 hours or 45 hours at 20 MB per hour. But an impossible feat when the ISP only stays connected 5 hours. If they were going to do a nearly 900 MB upgrade it needed to be on a disk as well. The point I made in a previous post many users even on high speed have limited monthly usage. Poor planning on the part of MS or likely just their typical corporate apathy concerning customers needs.
W8 has become an obsession with Microsoft. It was a mess from the beginning. It should have been pulled until they resolved issues they obviously did not test for with actual typical users.
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