Quite a good "rant" if you like that sort of thing (I do). I have a Windows 8 box for testing and I tested the upgrade to 8.1. First I had to get it bang up to

Quite a good "rant" if you like that sort of thing (I do). I have a Windows 8 box for testing and I tested the upgrade to 8.1. First I had to get it bang up to date before I could "see" the upgrade in the Windows store to replace the OS (sigh...) Total update time excluding downloads was 4 hours. Admittedly the box is not exactly high end. And the result is just as crappy as Windows 8 as far as I can see with just a tad more confusion (if possible) about how to find programs you want to run to get things done. I think that my next personal laptop will run Chrome.