50k is connect speed. What the actual download speed is going to average is at tops 15-20 MB per hour. 900/15 = 60 hours or 45 hours at 20 MB per hour. But an impossible feat when the ISP only stays connected 5 hours. If they were going to do a nearly 900 MB upgrade it needed to be on a disk as well. The point I made in a previous post many users even on high speed have limited monthly usage. Poor planning on the part of MS or likely just their typical corporate apathy concerning customers needs.
W8 has become an obsession with Microsoft. It was a mess from the beginning. It should have been pulled until they resolved issues they obviously did not test for with actual typical users.
Guess you shouldn’t try to live with a 21st century OS and 20th century connection. If you’re only getting 20MB an hour then even basic security updates take forever, best to turn off updates, in which case you don’t care if they’re not making updates for your non-updated version.
They’re no more obsessed than any other company. The OS is their primary product, so they work on it. That’s the job. At my company we’re working on an FP for the new version of our product, which shipped in October, this FP should ship at the end of June, then we’ll start working on the next FP, or next .version, or major release (I’m not privy to plans). That’s the job. Windows 8 isn’t a mess, it’s just got a different way of thinking. It’s got the same kind of lumps for user education that 95 had, the only real difference is 95 was replacing a version with a crappy UI and 8 is replacing a version with a really good UI (oddly enough the basically the 95 UI which nobody liked 20 years ago).