Posted on 04/15/2014 10:53:03 AM PDT by Utilizer
In what is surely the most customer-antagonistic move of the new Windows regime, Steve Thomas at Microsoft posted a TechNet article on Saturday stating categorically that Microsoft will no longer issue security patches for Windows 8.1, starting in May. Call this the "let them eat cake" approach to support for Microsoft's flagship operating system.
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Yes, you read that right: With three weeks left until Windows 8.1 end of support -- until the next round of security patches appear with Windows 8.1 not included in the party list -- Microsoft still hasn't figured out how to get Windows 8.1 Update out to the corporate update distribution channel.
There's been progress on one (rarely reported) error: Microsoft has a patch you can run if you're hitting error 80071A91 when installing Windows 8.1 Update. It's detailed in KB 2939087.
Tell me again Microsoft how you're cutting off Windows 8.1 updates so that "customers benefit from the best support and servicing experience"? Pshaw -- it sounds to me more like some customer-tone-deaf person in the organization has decided to minimize the patching budget by cutting off the company's most recent customers.
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Sure. I believe this.
Was this post mis-quoting the operating system?
The article says 8.1 support is ending.
Does that mean 8.0 support?
not a glazier to be found ?
Windows 8 support continues.
Windows 8.1 support continues if you keep installing upgrades as they are available. So far the upgrades are free, I don’t know if that will change.
Why don’t they just cover all the bases and say “Microsoft is ending support for Microsoft products.”
So the original post means what?
Is it bogus?
What they mean is Windows 8.2 support is beginning.
However... Microsoft itself yanked Windows 8.1 Update from the corporate WSUS update server chute almost a week ago and still hasn't offered a replacement.
They are replacing 8.1 with 8.1 Update. Why they couldn’t have called it 8.2 or 8.1.1 or 8.1.0.0.0.0.1 instead of 8.1 Update I have no idea. I guess soon we’ll just pretend that the original 8.1 never existed.
Don't know about the revocation of security patches - seems like an awfully abrupt way to handle this. At some point Microsoft is going to run out of feet to shoot.
You have to UPDATE 8.1 to 8.1 Update 1 to continue to getting patches.
This is a monumentally poorly-written communication. They are forcing 8.1 users to go to Update 1 to continue patching. This is most likely a security update that is irreversible.
(got it)
Thank you.
Much angst about nothing, here. This Windows 8.1 Update is just marketing speak for the first service pack for 8.1. Microsoft must have thought that “Windows 8.1 Service Pack 1” sounded weird.
As far as not updating the 8.1 further, realize that Microsoft did exactly the same thing for XP. A while after Service Pack 1 for XP came out, they quit patching the base XP and all the new patches were targeted at SP1. Same for XP SP2 and XP SP3 as time went by.
In the comments, someone posted this.
“What an poorly written FUD article straight out of Monty Python. This is coming from a Linux enthusiast too. I suppose if you don’t call it “Service Pack 8.1” then it doesn’t count? All standard procedure from past Windows revisions and updates.Pure click bait.”
Mistake number one is looking at the tech press as if they are any less biased, and frankly less stupid, as the regular media.
[InfoWorld] == [Desperate For Hits]
It is not a COMPLETE rewrite of the base code, but it is substantial enough that you are looking at a whole new install rather than a security patch suite a la XP-SP3.
Dam, I totally missed the Windows 7 End of Life event.
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