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The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse

Posted by timothy on from the or-at-least-a-kerfuffle dept.

arglebargle_xiv (2212710) writes "As most people will have heard, Microsoft will end support for anyone who hasn't upgraded to Win8.1 Update 1 on May 8. What fewer people have heard is that large numbers of users can't install the 8.1 Update, with over a thousand messages in this one thread alone, and that's for tech geeks rather than home users who won't find out about this until their PC becomes orphaned on May 8. Check your Windows Update log, if you've got a "Failed" entry next to KB2919355 then your PC will also become orphaned after May 8."

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  1. Lamepocalypse by Baby+Duck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As far as apocalypses go, that's one lame-sounding apocalypse.

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    1. Re:Lamepocalypse by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But surely you would do the same, no? Or would you really drop nearly $250 on an operating system?

      ...err, not really. I mean, seriously - my missus looked at the same situation and decided that she really didn't need Windows for anything.

      For my own new laptop, I found my own slightly costlier solution, but it works well for me. It has been working like a champ for almost year now, in spite of the abuse I regularly give it (which is, so far, longer than most laptops hold up under my not-so-tender mercies.) I keep Windows 7 around on a VMWare Fusion partition, but that's about it.

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  2. Microsoft make up your mind! by bejiitas_wrath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First you end support for XP, which is a good thing, then you end support for Windows 7 in 2020, now you are ending support for Windows 8 on May 8. Why? the bog standard Windows 8 still has newer software than Windows 7, the only thing holding it back is the retarded Modern UI interface. But this is a pretty lame apocalypse. I am perfectly happy with Windows 7 in a qemu KVM hypervisor running on a Linux laptop. This way I can run Windows in a window and use MS Office for those tasks that require it and still have access to the superior Linux command line tools. I just wish I still had my XP Pro VM. Now that was fun. Why is everything an apocalypse these days?

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    1. Re:Microsoft make up your mind! by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Its headline 2.0 compliant.

      The older headline 1.0 headline of "Windows 8.1 Pre Update 1 Reduction of Update Availibility arives mid 2nd quarter" has been obsoleted and will not recieve any more updates, which required an update to a headline 2.0 compliant headline.

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  3. Re:Apocalypse? by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, for me it's not an apocalypse, it's more a phoenix rising from the ashes!

    But then again, I'm in IT consulting...

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  4. Linking to page 100? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Page 101 has the notice that the update was re-issued with a fix and the rest of the posts are all "worked for me" posts. Problem Solved.

  5. Re:Apocalypse, Really? by XanC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would you care to read the summary and try again?

  6. FUD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    considering most of that thread appears to be completely non technical users discussing some really dumb questions I am guessing this article is just a really lame attempt at trolling or generating FUD?

  7. 1000 replies? by Enry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking at page 100, it looks like this really affects about a dozen people and they just keep posting. Let me know when there's 1000 unique people saying there's a problem.

    (and it appears that there's a fix of sorts)

  8. Disinformation by ormico · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows 8.0 will continue to be supported.
    Windows 8.1 will be supported if you have Update 1 installed.
    Its only Windows 8.1 that doesn't have Update 1 that is losing support.
    I'm not a fan of that, but don't make it out to be more than it is. Its certainly not the end of the world.