my new putter, a Christmas present, is now 8.1... but it got stuck on the Welcome page when I started it today. lol.
On the plus side, I did miss playing World of Tanks etc when I had Linux.
But by next Christmas, Windows might get corrupted and this thing will be Linux too.
I know the feeling, bought an 8.0 box for my son, took 10 hours to get it upgraded to 8.1 because the windows update just failed in a state that would not let it update, and without the updates would not let it upgrade to 8.1... I knew I would have to upgrade it when I got it, and knew it would take a few hours, but spending 10 hours on it, reading through blogs and support postings just to get the damned windows update working again....
Yea, this is just one of the many many reasons Windows is losing market share.... and deservedly so.
As I’ve posted before, I went from Win7 to Win8.1 - no stop at Win8.
That said, Win8.1 is far superior to Win7 - noticeably faster and MORE stable.
Win8.1 is much better than Win7 and light years beyond XP - the latter being an absolute horror nightmare with its infamous Blue Screen of Death. How anyone can say anything positive about XP is mind boggling.