![]() This is a lengthy process (a pair of laptops and a high powered desktop took between 20 and 40 minutes to complete) but for Windows 8 users it is seamless returning you to everything as you left it. The download process (clocking in at a hefty 3.4GB for the 64-bit version and 2.1GB for the RT edition) thankfully takes place in the background, only stopping you from working when it is time to install. ![]() ![]() The days of Windows Update are long gone as Microsoft has neatly folded OS updates into the Windows Store and users are automatically prompted to update. 8.1 also needs to fill gaps in the finger friendly ‘Modern UI’ that forced you back to the desktop and take the edge off some of the desktop’s more eccentric elements. Its task is arguably as difficult as the initial challenge of building Windows 8: merge two individually admirable but jarring OSes, the traditional desktop and ‘Modern UI’ for touch. In previous generations it would’ve been referred to as a Service Pack, but these days the trend is for decimalisation. This is the long awaited update to arguably Microsoft’s most ambitious and controversial operating system to date, Windows 8.
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