[Billthedrill]

I ran into this little gem last evening while locking down a couple of new server builds. Yes, the appearance of the desktop includes a search button if you have the update and does not if you do not. My partner and I were scratching our heads over where the difference came from because these were nominally identical servers.

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.

[Utilizer]

Yeah, I think really it came down to the fact that they were just having to issue so many patches for 8.1 that it was basically simpler and less costly to rewrite a portion of the base code to get past that. Unfortunately that means a complete re-install of the OS (if I am reading the article correctly) to remain up-to-date with all the security concerns, but since the rest of the OS coding would remain the same they decided to simply call it 8.1 Update.

The article was pointing that out as well as the fact that despite the announcement from MS the "Update" OS was not available on their main distribution node.

[VeniVidiVici]

I reinstalled Win 8 on my new laptop last night and it automatically went out and installed 8.1 Update.

However now the damn thing thinks its installed on a new machine and won’t activate unless I call MS. I called MS three times and each time I was placed in the phone queue only to get hung up on after a few mins.

Grrrr.