Review by Midnight Distortions

So i have gotten the opportunity (unfortunately) to work on some 8.1 machines. (well rather the first incarnation of W8) and coming from a tech this is about as dysfunctional as an OS gets. I have hit roadblocks before in computers, but normally i could find a way out of it, but this you just cant. Microsoft should have been bankrupt by now, but somehow selling 200 million licenses it’s hard to tell whether they are succeeding or not with this OS, but with the constant complaints i get on this OS it’s a wonder that MS continues on with this W8x metro/start screen nonsense.

To start off, i had questions about how to upgrade from W8 to 8.1. Well the first mistake that MS had made was instead of doing normal service packs in the update section of Windows, they decided to throw the update in the store. This is where there has major complications, every machine that i have tried to upgrade to W8.1 has failed! Every single one of them had BSODs and all attempts to restore W8 has failed. One machine had data corruption causing a client to be forced to start all over again. I myself had a Linux machine where i ended up testing W8 and 8.1 on and my Linux OS disappeared! I don’t know what kind of bull MS is doing but they have morons for techs and this should have been expected after all the rave about certain updates bricking some PCs. Every other Windows version had virtually no problems updating and the service packs were installed without a hitch. I’m not done yet. One machine i updated had everything wiped, it was like a new OS had been installed and any attempt for data recovery failed. Luckily that client backed everything up but we both were surprised.

Nothing about this is making any sense and Microsoft is having a death wish because either they forgot to add some drivers in or forget that some people don’t upgrade hardware or whatever it was, this is all on MS. It doesn’t matter how you install W7, get updates it still works and functions the way it should. However 8.1 is a mess. Not to mention it is not worth getting because of the UI changes. Why would you install 3rd party software before system updates and properly protecting yourself is beyond me. With less than 10% of the market share for W8, MS is scrambling around trying to make users happy this fall by restoring a start menu. However, it will have that metro/start screen mumbo jumbo junk that should just be abolished from existence. I won’t ever use this or MS protects in general. I have decided to switch to Linux, a far more secure and stable OS and while that too is a large learning curve, it beats trying to get 8.1 to work without your data being gone or having to go without visiting facebook for a week trying to figure out the cause of the problem. I diagnose this is W8x. Even the developers for it wants to see W8x in a data grave. If you think W8x is the future, well it’s a pretty bleak one because sooner or later MS will find some way to annoy you and you too will be going towards a free, open source platform such as Linux. No expiration dates, no having to reprogram your programs to work with the latest and greatest Windows. And best of all Linux doesn’t cost anything to use. All it takes is a lot of patience but in the end you will be glad you have switched to a free platform that is truly the future of PCs and will evolve, properly.