It’s here. Windows 8.1 is making it’s debut. If you have Windows 8, you can upgrade for free through the Windows store. If not, you can buy it the old fashioned way starting today: October 18, 2013. Let’s see if we should buy it, or upgrade for that matter.
There’s a lot of praise for the start button. It’s back through Windows 8.1 but it still goes to the start screen. You can turn your lock screen into a great slide show, even on sky drive. You can boot to screens other than the start menu and rearrange all your apps in one swoop. Speaking of apps, you can look at all of them in one place. For all my multi-monitor viewers, the 50:50 snap views will be a lot easier to obtain. And you know they’re going to make the Windows Store easier and more enhanced to get to. App dealers and app users will love that. If you’re not using a mobile device for 8.1, it allegedly runs like gold on a desktop. In fact, you’ll not even need your desktop control panel. Windows Blue will also be know for Windows 8.1.
I don’t know about you, but I’m exercising caution about this Windows 8.1. I’ve been disappointed with Windows systems before. Early this morning, a customer called complaining when she tried to upgrade to 8.1, she got a black screen and couldn’t boot up her computer. Someone is on the case as I speak, but I wonder how many more of these calls we’re going to get. How many complaints about what Windows 8.1 did to their system? Is Windows 8.1 worth getting or upgrading?