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Windows RT 8.1 Update Pulled From Windows Store
UnknowingFool writes "After reports of update problems including bricking of some devices, Microsoft has pulled the 8.1 update for RT from their store while they investigate. 'Microsoft is investigating a situation affecting a limited number of users updating their Windows RT devices to Windows RT 8.1. As a result, we have temporarily removed the Windows RT 8.1 update from the Windows Store. We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience. We will provide updates as they become available.' While update problems are not new to software, could this be a consequence of Microsoft not releasing 8.1 RTM to developers? Developers may have experienced problems earlier and alerted Microsoft before it went live."
My Surface Pro (not RT) update went swimmingly.
Its faster than it was before. Oddly, I now have two voice recorder apps. ?
But everything I previously had on the machine works perfectly.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
They just can't catch a break. Definitely a lot of distraction going on in the company with the unknown next CEO.
Seriously, the PC is important, and Microsoft is killing the platform. The universal computer is what drives innovation, not the consumer machines that Apple and Google are selling.
Serves them right. Microsoft should have learn already that the way to release stuff is to put a BETA label in it, like Google does with everything else. Service unavailable? BETA! Unexpected error? BETA! Lost all your data? BETA!
Beta is a blanket term for "we can charge for this but if it breaks it's not our fault".
Come on, MS. You're lagging behind.
There is also a widespread issue with updating to 8.1 failing with a 0xC1900101 - 0x40017 error on PCs.
oops
It's bricking when it cannot be fixed. This can, hence the article summary is wrong. Wake up editors!
There are a ton of people complaining about things no longer working after the 8.1 'upgrade'. Thank God I run a nice, reliable operating system like Linux instead of this crap that breaks machines every time you try to upgrade.
I'm so glad that oracle pointed out the flaws of open source! I would hate to think of bad code stemming from proprietary ideologies.
Upgraded my laptop the day the update became available in the store...have only noticed two odd things so far:
VLC is dead. Crashes immediately, then gives error about failing to send an error report. Yay. Uninstalling and reinstalling made no difference. Double yay.
Pictures used for wallpaper, screensaver, login screens, etc changed after reboot. Bizarre, but easily fixed.
I should note that I had to google how to change some of these back to original settings, as not all of these are changed from control panel. and the actual
setting I was looking for is hiding behind a GUI element that doesn't look clickable. That annoyed me more than anything else.
Seriously? They didn't seed that to the devs for a week or two? That's just plain stupid. Only reason I can see for pulling that is if there was a serious problem they needed to get fixed quickly.
Also raises the question of how much they really care about the performance and stability of RT on other manufacturers' boxes?
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
> "After reports of update problems including bricking of some devices,"
Hang on, aren't all Windows RT machines exactly the same hardware? How could there be differences between machines where an update would brick some and not others?
And the Windows 8 journey just keeps getting more entertaining.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Developers may have experienced problems earlier and alerted Microsoft before it went live."
Duh, you think? Only a Microsoft exec would be dumb enough to think otherwise.
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
enterprise will not stand for that what MB / system has this BS?
and why no secure boot for win 7??
Running the Apple walled garden model against a variety of hardware, and your rapid updates brick some of the models. Shocked - SHOCKED - that there's gambling going on in this establishment.
Several of the nine affected customers were disappointed.
Get an account, that was funny but the mods never saw it.
Free Martian Whores!
...Wednesday to be exact. A Wholesaler had a drawing after a vendor event. Last year I won my iPad at the same event. I also own a Nexus 7, and was willing to give this Microsoft Tablet a go. At the very least it could be used as a HTPC lite or something. It's 1080P output via a Micro HDMI port was beautiful, and a full-size USB port was a bonus, as was the Micro SD slot. The lower-rez screen was a disappointment. After 24 hours and a concerted effort to find a use-case for it, I quickly grew to hate the thing. The apps were poor and half-baked, the live-tiles became annoying, and apps that I love and need weren't available for the platform, yet were available on all of my other devices. VLC Media Player was $13.99 or something close to it. The Interface is, for me, a great big bucket of suck. Luckily, I upgraded to 8.1 and the thing promptly borked. Even with the volume off, it emitted an annoying whiny buzz when keys were pressed (I bought - and returned - a keyboard cover) or when it booted, or when you swiped the screen. The wholesaler gave me a Best-Buy gift receipt with it, so when I returned the godawful thing on Friday, I came away with a $397 store gift card. This will be applied to a nice DSLR camera sometime in December.
What? Every single customer of that thing was affected? Wowie...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If so then that can be bad for them
Only funny the first thousand or so times the same damn joke has been made.
The previous posts said eight, but apparently MS just sold another one in Utah last month.
Since reading your post, I'm now going to rename any "Caps Lock" button as the "CRAZY" button. Any post that has seemingly random sections of capitalisations always looks like it's been written by a strung-up meth-head.
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
While normally I would look at this, it seems that I had early access from the Windows 8.1 Preview that was loaded on my RT device for 2 months before I did a refresh back to Win8RT OS. The device got constant updates to keep it within striking distance of RTM. I am thinking that it was not the lack of "Windows 8.1 RTM" for a RT device that casued the issue.
Thanks to all of you that act as my test team. Your relentless pursuit to ensure that all the bugs are ironed out so that my system never has to brick is much appreciated. You will get a virtual cookie for your dedicated service.
I believe him.
After all, the say the chimera never lies...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Waiting for 8.1.1
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Charge what exactly, I'm awaiting my Google bill with baited breath.
Whyyy