Windows 8.1

aardvaak

I just let my laptop upgrade from 8 to 8.1

What a parlava

It took ages and ages with lots of silly messages.

Why does it take so long?

Buzby

Because it has to remove all the old carp from version 8.0...?

jonesMUFCforever

I know and its no better now is it?
Certainly don't like what they have done to windows mail.

aardvaak

Buzby wrote: »

Because it has to remove all the old carp from version 8.0...?

And put new carp in

ThemeOne

The upgrade process is about as awkward as could be - never understood why MS didn't just make 8.1 a service pack to 8.0.

They no doubt have their reasons, but convenience of the customer wasn't one of them!

grumpycrab

aardvaak wrote: »

It took ages and ages with lots of silly messages.

Bring back Service Packs. I've had lots of complaints from clients about the time it takes to go from 8->8.1 They're lucky - I should have charged them for my time instead of giving them instructions on how to do it themselves.

chunter

roll on Windows 9.. this one's been another disaster.

harrys_dad

Why is it that every other edition of Windows is awful and not as good as the one before? XP good, Vista rubbish, 7 good, 8 rubbish, and don't get me started on Millenium Edition. (post written on my trusty netbook running XP)

custardy

Went to bed on 8,got up on 8.1.
Did I miss something?

bod1467

custardy wrote: »

Did I miss something?

You now have a squiggly Windows Start button as standard.

danthemoneysavingman

windows 8.1 is notably better than 8, in my opinion.
You can even boot straight to desktop so it's hardly different from W7 now.
Little arrow at bottom left of metro screen brings up the contents of the erstwhile W7 start button.

After spending a short while getting used to it it seems mighty fine to me. But you're all welcome to your opinions of course!

And I can't imagine W9 will not have a similar learning curve attached to it, nor niggly problems from the outset. I look forward to all the complaints about it when it does come out ;-)