Windows 8.1 Round 2

Many months ago in the summer of 2013 Microsoft released version of Windows 8.1 for people to test out. I blindly went ahead and installed it... which was the biggest waste of 3 days I've done in a long time. Not only did it prove to be insanely unstable, but many applications I needed simply couldn't function on Windows 8.1. It wasn't fully ready for release and was more of a showcase anyways so I basically blew it off as pre-release defects.

I decided after all this time to upgrade to 8.1, in May 2014, over half a year since it has been released. My upgrade process went as follows:

1. Download upgrade to 8.1 from store I never use
2. Install upgrade to 8.1 which was fairly quick in terms of OS upgrades
3. Watch computer reboot and do 'magic'
4. Watch Windows 8.1 start up
5. Watch Windows 8.1 give me a blue screen and reboot
6. Watch Windows 8.1 downgrade itself back to Windows 8 and reboot
7. Windows 8 loads up and kindly informs me the upgrade failed and I am now running Windows 8

I don't really have an exotic hardware setup, yes I run high-end parts but nothing strange and a modest overclock compared to most. But after this long I would have thought Microsoft would have invested the time to work out the upgrade bugs... Instead I find a nice thread back from October 17, 2013 with 400+ responses talking about how the upgrade fails in an identical manner to me.

Windows 8 keeps looking more and more like a lemon, good thing it boots fast or I would have downgraded (or should I say upgrade) to 7 a long time ago...

Will Windows 9 prove to be awesome? Only time and Microsoft can tell you that... Some days I wish Linux had better game support.