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Woody Leonhard of Infoworld summarizes the current state of Microsoft KB 2919355, the ambiguously-titled 'Windows 8.1 Update' (not to be confused with the update _to_ Windows 8.1).
In short: Microsoft has frozen two discussion threads on KB2919355 issues (after 103 and 116 pages of comments), and updated the Knowledge Base article with workarounds for seven major errors... some of which don't work.
In last week's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft changed their deadline for this Update until June (formerly they were requiring all Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 systems worldwide to have installed the Update in order to receive new patches).
Meanwhile, if you run a WSUS server, you may notice that the package for KB291355 (last reissued for the third time on 6 May) was apparently silently reissued over the weekend with a new release date of '15 May 2014', but there's no indication of any software updates in the KB article. The article revision number, however, now stands at '21.0'. Yes, twenty-one revisions. With no changelog.
Anyone else with interesting stories about your deployment issues with this Update?
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Monday May 19 2014, @02:55PM
Yes - don't buy them.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 19 2014, @04:18PM
So if your stuck with Win8 laptop. What do you do then?
(I know Linux is a possibility or BSD. But in some cases windows is what one has to deal with.)
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Monday May 19 2014, @11:53PM
Classic shell. Do not depend on Linux or even Windows 7 working with the BIOS on a Windows 8 computer. Secure Boot and short (or entirely missing) time windows to press "alternate start" keys can be your undoing. Windows 7 stops shipping in October on OEM machines; I'm desperately hoping to have a decent job outside that support market by then.
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