4 Replies Latest reply: Feb 24, 2014 6:26 AM by Steven L. Gotz

Interesting Effect of Win8.1 Update

John T Smith Feb 23, 2014 8:41 AM

My wife's computer had Win8.0 and I have Win7... and I had problems reading her shared folders... always had to click on homegroup and start the troubleshooter before her folders would show so I could copy files between computers

After updating her to Win8.1 I now see all of her shared folders without having to jump thru the hoop of having the troubleshooter "activate" the homegroup link

Whatever else Microsoft did in 8.1 they fixed the problem of homegroup linking between Win7 and Win8

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able123 Feb 23, 2014 9:02 AM (in response to John T Smith)

nothing like a little good news for a change ....
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Bill Hunt Feb 23, 2014 4:17 PM (in response to John T Smith)

John T,

Just saw a crawl (FoxNews), that indicated that MS was going to introduce a new OS, to fix all the issues with Win 8, and especially for non-touch devices. Looks like they feel that Win 8 is the new Vista... ?

Did not go on line to check out any details, like will it be Win 8.X, or Win 9.

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John T Smith Feb 23, 2014 5:40 PM (in response to Bill Hunt)

I don't now about WinNEXT, but I did see an online article this morning that Microsoft has made a "drastic" (I think I remember 70%) cut in the price they charge system builders who pre-install Win8x on new computers

My wife "loves" the Win8x start screen, since she now has big icon "tiles" to start her programs... now that Win8.1 has fixed our homegroup problem, I'm OK with it as well

Of course, once past the new start screen and into a traditional program... not one of the APPS you can only get from Microsoft... Win8x looks and runs just like Win7 (at least externally... I'm sure there are things inside the OS that are different than the Win7 I use)

Technology marches on... like it or not

ADDED 70% story http://guardianlv.com/2014/02/microsoft-corporation-discounts-windows-8/
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Steven L. Gotz Feb 24, 2014 6:26 AM (in response to John T Smith)

My wife has become accustomed to clicking on the desktop icon and then using the Win 8 PC as though it was a Win 7 machine.

But then again she only uses a browser, a mail program, and a couple of Adobe apps.
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