Windows 8.1

I upgraded my Windows 8 support system to the latest 8.1 release. It hasn't seemed to improved much as the focus of the changes seems to be to make it more acceptable in the business and commercial environment rather than the home environment. Yet again Microsoft is losing contact with the consumers that helped it gain the predominant position in the IT market.

As I said before in my previous post using IObit's excellent free Start8 utility to boot directly into the desktop and reinstate the Start button functionality works better than Microsoft's weak effort. Plus using 'control userpasswords2' to stop requiring a password every time and disabling the password required following a screensaver or hibernation helps a lot in recovering the Windows 7 appearance and interactions.

Microsoft continues to loose the plot in the desktop and laptop market and Windows 8 (and 8.1) is major contributor to it's decline. They would have been better off to port Microsoft Office to Apple OS and Android environments starting five years ago. Probably made more money too!