I'm still unable to get the update from 8 Pro to 8.1 Pro to work. Several other forums have comments from Sys Admins that what should have been such an obvious update path test was apparently missed. Whine over.
So, I don't want to mess around with regedit or any other lowlevel mechanisms to accomplish this update.
Is MS going to provide a more robust solution to this?
What I'm most concerned about now is that the rumored April 2014 update will fail or that I will be locked out of updating to 8.1 by yet another test path omission.
I've been upgrading hardware and Windows since W95 and this is the most unprofessional step I've seen. Sorry, I guess the whine wasn't over, but I'm now seriously considering a Mac. At least the BSD operating system is mature enough and robust enough to
get beyond this kind of nonsense - even at the exorbitant premium.
MS, I hope you have someone reading these forums. You've got a window (no pun intended) of opportunity in that iOS is a semantic junkyard at object level.