Posted on 04/16/2014 12:16:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Microsoft has been on a roll lately. Office for iOS (and soon Android), free Windows licenses for small devices, universal Windows and Windows Phone apps, Siri rival Cortana, even a promise to eventually return the start menu before Windows 9. But when it comes to Windows 8, it seems the company has a permanently loaded pistol aimed squarely at its feet.
So it fits that just one week on from the launch of “Windows 8.1 Update 1” (the smart upgrade mouse and keyboard users have long awaited) stupidity would strike once again.
“Windows 8.1 Update is a cumulative update to Windows 8.1,” said Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager Ben Hunter in an apparently innocuous blog post aimed at IT professionals. Then came the clanger: “It also becomes the new servicing baseline for Windows 8.1, so next month’s security updates (on May 13th, the next ‘Patch Tuesday’) will be dependent on Windows 8.1 Update.”
In English: If you have not installed Update 1 by 13 May, then Windows 8.1 will no longer receive security updates until you do. This is your 4 week countdown warning. …
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
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This has already been posted before. It is a purely sensationalist headline from the usual Apple using idiots in the tech media looking for something to bash MS over.
You Richard Heads just keep making the case linux or other OS’s and an install of Open Office...
I guess its time to walk the walk and start looking at Linux.
Let’s see 890 MB of a continuous download at the connect speed of 49K should take what 4-5 days? I’ve got a W-8 Paper Weight. Thank you MICROCRAP.
Win 8 is a fiasco.
Open office is a good product until you have to share a document with someone from another company.
I run Windows 7 on my Mac.
It’s perfect.
I H8 Windows 8.
is there a way to see if the update is installed? I just bought 8.0 and am not sure if I have the update installed.
I replaced my Win7 laptop with a new Win8 Ultrabook - immediately upgraded to Win8.1. So no experience with Win8.0.
That said...
I’ve found Win8.1 to be far more stable and faster than Win7. It boots direct to my desktop almost instantaneously vs (by comparison) Win7’s “slow boat from China” speed.
It also amazes me that so many love XP ignoring the fact it had the infamous Blue Screen of Death syndrome with so many crashes.
Just go to “Check for Updates” via Control Panel -> System Security -> Windows Update
Complaining about download speed at 49K? Good grief, are you on a “soup cans with strings” connection?
Go to WiFi hotspot (McDonalds, Paneara, etc) for a more normal and faster speed.
Are you walking about sharing/collaborating?
Or
Just plain old opening a document?
Far as I know you save a document in it’s universal format and anyone should be able to open it.
If you want real time collaboration you enable it.
Although I use Apple products after years of using Microsoft with all the many virus’. I don’t think people who use Apple care one way or the other about Microsoft. We are humored by the disaster known as Microsoft.
****I replaced my Win7 laptop with a new Win8 Ultrabook - immediately upgraded to Win8.1. So no experience with Win8.0.************
For me, just the opposite. My new laptop had Win 8 and I upgraded to 8.1 because it seemed to be the thing to do. I had problems adding Bluetooth devices so I “downgraded” back to 8.0. Since then, have had no problems at all.
I just hope it stays that way.
They don't care about things like mainframes, either. Back in the '80s when MS was working with IBM to get PCs to talk to the mainframes Apple was pissing on the whole idea every chance they got. Macs are a consumer appliance, not an enterprise IT platform.
I think MACs cater to the folks who don’t want anything complicated. They want an easy product. I include myself in that. I agree with your post.
Romanticists. They want a "black box" that "just works".
“Just go to “Check for Updates” via Control Panel -> System Security -> Windows Update”
Just did this. I have auto updates turned on and found I have ‘1 Important Update’ to be installed. The update indicates it is for x64. How do I find out if I have x64?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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