Windows 8.1 Passes Windows Vista In Market Share

An anonymous reader writes "With the release of Windows 8.1 to the world in October, January was the third full month of availability for Microsoft's latest operating system version, which was just enough time for it to pass Windows Vista in market share. While Windows 8.1 is certainly growing steadily and eating into Windows 8s share, the duo only managed to end 2013 with 10 percent market share, barely impacting Windows 7."

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Windows 8.1 is shit and....

[mendax]

... here's why.

Two weeks ago after I upgraded to 8.1 I found that I could not copy multi-GB files to a flash drive. The copy would start the copy process but very soon afterward it the transfer rate would get slower and slower and eventually hit 0 and stay there. Eventually, the OS would stop it with some stupid error. Rebooting in safe mode and trying again allows the copy to be completed but you'd never know it because the graphical display showing the copy STILL shows it stalling although the LED on the flash drive continues to indicate that it's being written to. Eventually, the graphical display will catch up with what is being copied and it appears that half a gigabyte was copied to the drive in a couple seconds.

How in the name of hell did 8.1 ever get passed QA with such an obvious bug? Has Windows gotten so huge and clunky and full of bloat that even the code for a simple file copy is riddled with bugs?

Suffice it to say, I don't use that machine very often except when I have to use Windows.