The update from the installed W-8 to 8.1 was smooth as silk. I got up for 5 minutes at 0130, 4 minutes of which were used to go to the XXX, and clicked on the update to 8.1 in Windows store. Went back to bed and this morning at 0600 when I got up it had finished downloading some time during the night. Just a matter of accepting the license, signing in,
and entering the "Trust Code" That didn't work, so clicked on the call us on phone, which rang immediately with a new code that worked. I imagine they do that as another measure to protect from bootlegging the software, as well as extra protection for those that go to their cloud account from another computer. The establishment of a Microsoft account is really for access to the 7 Gig cloud account that comes with the system if you are inclined to use it. All the bootlegging in earlier years by the hackers and still going on in most of the rest of the world caused more and more controls to be added. Those that want everybody else's stuff for nothing but wouldn't give away a dime of their own products or services are the ones that always complain.
As for the B&S versus Honda comparison, I have always wanted to know how things work, from the time I was a kid.
My Dad was always telling me it was fine to tear stuff that was working apart to learn, but I dang sure better put it back together in a working fashion with no parts left over.
The B&S vs. Honda comparison reminds me, from the opposite viewpoint, of an incident in the spring when I was taking tractor equipment to another plot up the road and came across a young couple that waved me down. They had come from the big city to hike in the woods and see nature as they had only seen via TV before, or as so they said..
The young lady was crying and said that the battery in her door/alarm opener wasn't working and they had left their Smart phone in the car locked up. She asked if I could please help.
So I shut down the tractor and asked for her remote locking device. I looked at it and then walked over to the driver door and stuck the key that was on the end of the remote in the door lock and opened it. They both started laughing and thanked me for not verbally admonishing them for their own stupidity.
I'm afraid a large majority of our younger generations are becoming to busy at playing, just pushing buttons, and have no interest in learning how stuff works in case they get into a situation where they may have to think out of a solution on their own. Having someone else do it by just swiping a credit card and getting deeper in debt doesn't seem to bother them. After all, they see plenty of other examples of, "that's the way to live."
Didn't mean for this to become a rant. Sorry.
Thanks to Soundguy and the others that helped this old man think his way through the download of a big file problem in advance.
It was really kind of off subject, but does involve the OP's question about a W-8 purchase.
I think it will be a fine system now that this year long coming update has arrived. Probably fine before but MS was listening to customer complaints of W-8 and realized that there are still a lot us old time desktop folks that need a large monitor, a fast chipset, memory, and large hard drive that won't bog down when we play with a 30 MB RAW file from our DSLR camera and increase it to over 100 MB with layers in Photoshop.
