Anyone else is excited for the Win8.1 Update in 15min?

i've been using the 8.1 preview since it's been available. after a registry edit to remove all the folders it wanted to display alongside my drives in computer view, it's almost entirely an improvement on windows 8:

• having a button for the start screen makes it SO much easier to get to the start screen for a vm or when connecting over vnc (it's hard to hit the lower left corner when it's in a window)
• being able to set the start screen background to your desktop wallpaper makes the transition to / from the start screen much less jarring
• making desktop applications' start screen tiles not all the same color is a lot less ugly (though still ugly)
• start screen search no longer only shows you programs unless you select settings after searching, so it's much easier to get to stuff like programs and features
• two new tile size options might be nice -- i set some stuff i rarely use to the smallest size

i'm pretty sure the extra folders clutter is the only thing that got worse. i still miss desktop gadgets which i've added back in, and the ability to put commonly-used document links in the start menu which i haven't found a good way around. still with all it's bad choices, windows 8 was an improvement over windows 7 for me and 8.1 makes it a little better yet.

Nope. Cause if it wasn't for the fact I got more then 3 gigs of ram, I would not have bothered to get windows 7 and would have stuck with windows XP. It does everything I need.

Windows 8 and 8.1 does nothing I need and is a tablet OS made to work on a PC. I don't have a touch screen monitor, and as long as I have a choice to not buy them, I never will. I don't view that as a useful feature in a desktop or even laptop computer that sits on the desk or lap.

Oh and I even dislike windows 7 because it removed a few features that I liked and used in XP, and changed the way other features worked for what I can see as no reason to do that because they worked better in XP. (the way search works, the way you can't seem to set all folders to a specific view and to use that view even with new folders and stuff like that. Small but annoying things)

Most of the thread is like "He said tits in TV! Kill him!" :D ...thanks god everyone has his own opinion xD ...

Only 41 entries...we need more!...atleast 81!...

if there would be no Metro i would buy win 8 to have better performance but i wont buy it couse of the metro looks shitty andi dont like it ;p i was using it in test for 30 days and didnt like it.. so i am staying with my Win 7 ultimate.. if they would do windows 8 without metro than i would meybe buy it..

got it ages ago, it was early for dreamspark users.
It's useless for me since I disabled that useless UAC shit and apps won't even run when that thing is off.

Minor GUI changes, stardocks windows 8 is still much better

Being excited for a windows update? No, never. Not once in my life. And I've been using windows since 3.0 came out.

This setup works for me.

1. Get rid of metro stuff. Run powershell.exe
2. Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
3. Weapon of choice -> Start8 / StartIsBack / ClassicShell
4. Run cmd.exe
   net user administrator /active:yes
5. UAC off

I don't like win8 at all but I dunno why people have to be so stuck up about those with different opinions. People who hate win 8 aren't tech challenged or whatever and people who like it aren't dumb, stop being children

Windows 8 is cool after you customize it a lot didn't knew about update but seriously Win7 Win8 WinXp all didnt feel right to me. Vista was even worst.
If DX11 was supported on Windows 2k i would use that instead. Tryed all my current Games on Windows 2k on another partitions worked fine but not 64bit so lose 10GB of ram.
So Windows Server 2003 64bit would have been the best but those are Illegal Copies so yeah paid 40$ for win8 cant complain for once been legit.

Just updated, loving it so far.

Win 7 here. I'll wait till Win 9...

nope

Love Win8 :)

Damn. Upgrade won't work, might need to install from iso :(

i still use windows 7

Is anyone else excited that Ubuntu 13.10 came out today as well? :P

As a windows 3.1 user, absolutely.

I'm Not using 8.1 due lack of support lucid virtu mvp

Installed yesterday night, by MISTAKE !!!!
The Microsoft AppStore page said you can download, and then select if you want to upgrade or not, so I said ok, download now install later (after reading some reviews). It downloaded, STARTED UPGRADE, rebooted 3 times, then showed the licence agreement with Accept/Refuse !!! At this point I can't refuse !!!

In general it is not bad, I only hated when it reverted my account from Administrator and Local only (no Live account) back to Standard User with Microsoft Live account login.

Why would anyone be excited by something related to windows ..

18 hours since last entry...really? :PBump...

I don't like Windows 8, I'm sticked to Windows 7.