Review by Dano1988

First and foremost this DOES NOT allow a upgrade from Windows 7. It does allow you to keep all your data but does wipe out your applications so if there is a program you can’t live without and can’t find the original disks you have a BIG decision to make. I would suggest you put all self generated files, e.g., documents on an external drive and then disconnect the drive just in case.

Shortly after the installation the OS did a critical update so when I came back to my computer it was done. Note: I did an 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade on my Surface pro the day before as a downloaded upgrade. The results were not stellar to say the least. On the tablet I had to remove the update because it wiped out the wifi connection and I tried everything I knew to restore it. Once I backed off the update it worked just fine. On the desktop (New Dell that came native with 8 on it) I began getting error messages saying that my IE browser was an old version of Netscape and it was incompatible. The solution I found was to install the newest version of Fire Fox which seems to fixed the problem. It appears that some vendors are not as compatible as they thought they were and MS has some work to do.

So In my estimation 8.1:n1. Has some bugs that need to be addressedn2. Is faster than 7 wasn3. Has a smaller learning curven4. Has some compatibility issuesn5. Needs to allow drive indexing for external drives to speed up the seek timen5. Needs MS attention to fix the glitches pronto if they want to gain in their market share.