All I had to do to not use Skydrive was not login with my MSN account. If that won’t work for you these directions: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111442/how-to-disable-windows-8s-deep-cloud-integration-piece-by-piece.html look pretty simple.
Yes there are still people using dial-up. And they should probably stay on older OSes that aren’t geared towards the always-connected-always-high-speed world most of the rest of us live in.
They aren’t really valid issues. You’re an outlier, 8 and 8.1 are simply NOT aimed at outliers. You chose an OS that is specifically geared towards people not you and are complaining that it doesn’t work for you. Techs are ALWAYS posting ill about the new stuff, that’s why I keep mention 95, back when the internet was just techs people whined incessantly about the Start menu and broken downward compatibility, and the tight integration with IE, and the putting all the apps in a folder that broke 8.3 and was a pain to navigate in DOS. Every generation generates a raft of complaints as people don’t want to learn the new stuff. Even the now much beloved XP generated this grief. Just like a new Dr Who, every hates him all the way up until he becomes the old Dr Who then everybody loves him so they hate the new new Dr Who.
93% of America, by your own admission, have high speed to some level. Now how high is high depends on where you are. And yes there is still that lagging 7%. But the upper 4 sections of the bell curve have internet connections high enough in speed to not run into the problems you’re having.
Sorry but if you think post 38 shows I lack technical skill then you’re the one lacking the technical skill. Connection speed is measured in seconds, 50Kbps * 60 = 3000K (a bit under 3M) a minute, * 60 again = 180,000K (180M) an hour, * 5 gives 900M and you get the patch. Not my fault you mis-wrote your down speed.
Post 6 by me.
Let’s see 890 MB of a continuous download at the connect speed of 49K should take what 4-5 days? I’ve got a W-8 Paper Weight. Thank you MICROCRAP.
You in post 36 stated Actually it equals 5 HOURS. Pretty easy overnight/ at work update.
IOW you are not a TECH you actually know little about it and you're simply a MS Shill Trolling. Any Tech would know 50 K connect is not the download speed. At 50K under good conditions meaning no virus updates etc the rate to the update would average about 5 KBS
And again like a TROLL You Twisted my words. Access to High Speed If you say 93% is also ones on cell phones with strict caps some as low as 500MB a month. Tops IIRC is 5 GB a month.