OTOH, this could be Microsoft's quiet effort to kill off RT, which has not done well. Shades of Win-ME, which was "broken by design" to kill off the DOS-based Windows product line.
Anyway, if you have RT devices, don't upgrade yet.
tech ping, fer shure.
I was going to download the update onto my laptop until I read this. What is an RT device?
Hmmm....shoving out a bad product that is “broken by design” for self-serving reasons...
Perhaps we should refer to Obamacare as the “Windows ME of healthcare reform”.
How ‘bricked’ is bricked one wonders...Hard to believe one has to pitch the machine... which is what ‘bricked’ used to mean...
Well, I guess there are reasons to upgrade to 8 but I fail to understand why...
Obama should take the hint here.
It has not been a red-letter day for Microsoft. Windows 8 has not been doing well by any means. The patch was developed to return Windows 8 usability, customer familiarity to be more reminiscent of Windows 7. Meanwhile, the future of computers is in the mobile arena which does not play to Microsoft’s strengths. The future of computers on the desktop, Microsoft does not look upbeat as sales continue spiraling downward. the prospects for Microsoft does not appear to be
Sounds like Bill Gates suffers from same issue as Obama. Me, well I love my Apple’s!!!!
Take an old Windows 7 box - dual- or quad-core - with 4 to 8 GB of RAM, throw away the hard-drive and put a new one in. Then put Linux on it. I use Fedora 19 with the KDE desktop, Firefox, Evolution for email, and LibreOffice 4.x. Am good for another few years. And it only cost about $100. I have to use Windows 8 @ work. The kids at Microsoft have never put out such a garbled mess as Windows 8. They couldn’t decide what they wanted the system to be, but one thing it isn’t - it is NOT a desktop system. Am waiting to talk to the IT guys before updating to 8.1.
Windows 8 locks up better than XP. It seems slower than older programs. They hid things so you could not finds making the program seem faster.
Progress, bigger and better mistakes.
I don’t use touch screen. So I have no use for Windows 8 OR Windows 8.1. Also, the new desktop is extremely ugly looking.
I have always preferred Windows to Apple, but there have been some difficult periods, and this is certainly one of them. I see no reason why you can’t have an underlying system that is topped off by two different desktops, for phone-size and laptop size computers, touchscreen and keypad.
I updated Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 on both my desktop and laptop and yes I do notice the little bugs here and there..my Avast anti virus was not compatible on 8.1 on my laptop, it deleted it automatically..on my desktop I noticed the boot up was a little slower than usual, than it improved..the new start button is there but it doesnt show the program files, I still had to install startisback to make it work again
Reputable companies pay people to do their QA before they ship their products, they don’t make their customers pay them for untested products and force them to find their problems.
Reminds me about the old joke of the trick of putting a brick to sleep. Easy to put to sleep, but nobody can wake it back up!
I am not even sure what a Microsoft RT device is
What, all twelve of them? :)
Why take it offline? As our government would say "It's only a glitch."
Microsoft Pulls Windows RT 8.1 UpdateThe link URL remains the same. The original article source has updated their title to reflect the fact that they only pulled the "RT" update, not the Pro update.
Thanks to FReeper VanDeKoik for indirectly encouraging me to check back to see if/when the original article title got corrected.
How do you brick a camel?