Microsoft Abandons Windows 8.1: Take Immediate Action Or Be Cut Off Like Windows XP

Forbes ^ | 4/15/2014 @ 7:24AM | Gordon Kelly

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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 13^th, 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. …

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49Kbps takes 5 hours to get 890M, the math is simple, I showed you the math. Then you said you get 20MB an hour, which, as I showed you in the math is DRAMATICALLY slower than 49K. It’s not my fault you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Funny how the guy who now needs insults insists the other guy is a troll. Sorry bud, you’re full of it. You simply never should have gotten a 21st OS that assumes you have 21st century connection speed. That’s on you.

And then you twist words to claim your words are being twisted. Lots of people have high speed internet without involving their cell phones. For that one you need to look up what the term means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_speed_internet
especially notice this map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FixedBroadbandInternetPenetrationWorldMap.svg
That’s high speed through a wire. Notice America is in the dark blue zone, basically 100%.

Anyway I’m sure your next reply will be filled with vim and vigor and insisting I’m a troll while you throw all the insults and grossly misuse basic computer terminology. No reason to bother to make it, we both know you’re need to throw insults means you know you’re wrong. Enjoy your 9K speed which you insist is 49K.

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49 KBS Connect Speed is not an update download speed you Blithering Idiot!!!! Or Rather Idiot Troll. Look at the download dialog box on a download. You'll see about 5KPS on dial up downloads usually at best. That gives tops 15-20 MBs per hour. I'm through with you. You don't have a clus about dial up or your just getting off on Trolling... Whatever.