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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 19 2014, @07:38PM
Q4OS
That is a nascent project.
When it has a bit more time behind it, it will be interesting to see how it has continued to progress.
Another distro with more maturity is Zorin OS.
A number of reviewers have recommended it for folks wanting to make the switch.
As an example of ease of transition, Zorin ships with WINE.
You might give that one a try as well.
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To reinforce what the previous AC said, foobar2000 has support via WINE [codeweavers.com]
which is somewhere between good and excellent. [google.com]
-- gewg_