It’s also documented that there was a serious flaw in the 8.0 kernel that forced everyone to update to 8.1. If you didn’t upgrade to 8.1, literally every security and kernel-level update would not work. Microsoft did a good thing with 8.1, because there were security vulnerabilities that would’ve been catastrophic to them had they not.
True, but Win 8.1 is still "not Scottish". :)