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| Thread ID: 136514 | 2014-03-07 19:07:00 | Has anyone installed the Escrow / 8.1 update RTM that was leaked the other day??? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | PC World Chat |
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| 1369715 | 2014-03-07 19:07:00 | If you have, do you think 8.1 is any better / faster? Looks like someone from MS leaked the windowsupdate links for the final, but then MS found out and blocked it lol. As well as the registry hack that let you get them from windowsupdate. Must have been madness yesterday. You would have had like 30-40 mins before MS found out and blocked the links and the hack |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1369716 | 2014-03-07 21:29:00 | Nope. Waiting for the official release. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1369717 | 2014-03-07 21:57:00 | I'm about to, grabbed it overnight so I've just gotta go get laptop outta the car to try it :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1369718 | 2014-03-07 21:57:00 | Nope. Waiting for the official release. :+1: Hope it does come out as auto updates for most people, and not separate msu files, god can see it now, :groan: people moaning which one do I install first :crying THEN you see articles titled like this : "Big smiles everyone, next Windows 8.1 update may boot to desktop by default" Errr Hello people, windows 8.1 can boot directly to desktop, tick one box and reboot ;) Biggest problem with 8.1 is some people cant think for themselves. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1369719 | 2014-03-07 22:50:00 | I downloaded and installed them yesterday (the escrow and the RTM). So far so good, nothing crashed. The sites that had / have them, tell you what order to install them in. The escrow files were about 1.95 GB (x64 and x86 files). And the RTM files were around 1.1 GB. Not really much of a diff besides whats been said online already. Instead of the option in store / apps being on the bottom, you can right mouse on whatever you get the options. And you can pin them to the taskbar. And the wireless now has 3 options forget this network, data usage, and set as metered connection And the sleep / shutdown / restart options under start in Metro |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1369720 | 2014-03-08 01:11:00 | Windows 8.1 Update is the final nail in the coffin: betanews.com Caution, some bad language, if you are sensitive don't click link. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1369721 | 2014-03-08 04:19:00 | they don't mince their words and my thoughts on using 8.1 daily at work agree with there's it's cobbled together crap | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1369722 | 2014-03-08 04:36:00 | Oh dear and have got 8.1 on my new Zen-Book. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1369723 | 2014-03-08 05:28:00 | Windows 8.1 Update is the final nail in the coffin: betanews.com Caution, some bad language, if you are sensitive don't click link. I read that but mostly it seems like sour gripes that MS didn't back down and return windows 8 to the windows 7 interface. They want "Metro", they are not going to get rid of it, it replaces the start menu - boo hoo big deal. If you truly hate windows 8, nothing is stopping you from sticking with 7. It does a perfectly good Job and doesn't need replacing. Windows 8 is not buggy, it's not slow, all the old apps are still there, you can install an aftermarket start menu if you like and ignore the start screens existence. In truth it offers you more options than 7 because it has all the same desktop options as well as the new apps - which you do not have to use if you don't want to. There are things about the new interface I don't like, some apparently foolish design decisions (why the hell make a mouse user drag an app the whole screen to close it) and some questionable Aesthetics - but none of that stops it working and once you get the hang of it working just as quickly and easily as 7 does with a bunch of new options. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's all sunshine and roses and windows 8 is fantastic, just that it works fine if you give it a chance and that nobody's taken windows 7 off you as an option if you don't want 8, I really don't get what all the fuss is about. You'd think they'd forced it on everyone and removed the desktop completely the way some people have reacted. I hated Windows 8 initially, was frustrated with it quite often for a few weeks, but now I have stopped even noticing anything unusual about it and just use it. I was a bit surprised last week to discover I don't even have a copy of windows 7 available anymore, must have sold off the last machine that had a 7 license without noticing I'd done it. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1369724 | 2014-03-08 05:44:00 | I'm surprisingly happy with 8.1 If you think of the Metro interface as a full-screen start menu, it's not _really_ that bad. Some of the things are kinda stupid, like trying to pair via bluetooth switches you to Metro interface, but opening other settings just does it in a window. Otherwise, it's like Windows 7 really, only a few extra nice things like the copy dialog... I've found it marginally faster too! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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