Windows 8.1

[igoramadas]

Here it took like 5min to download (corporate connection, wooop), and more than 30min to install. The damn thing had to restart 3 times to apply the update!!!

 

[Mandos]

Is there a minimum amount of free space needed for the update on Surface RT?

 

[Blkacesvf41]

well the green bar returned back where it was before...at around 45%....

mine just went to: "Getting update ready" Under the green bar.

 

[iainmann]

"Gathering info" now. Ahh...just changed to preparing for restart.

 

[akshaypn]

ya same here ...

 

[mms-pc]

"Gathering info" is nothing, after restart there's a lot more to setup. When I thought this setting up is done, then there's another setting up showing up, running another 0% to 100%.......Damn it, it's been nearly an hour since the restart, and I'm now stuck here in "Setting up a few more things 80%" for quite some while, when does it end?!

 

[WillysJeepMan]

Yeap, the servers must be overwhelmed. If Windows 8 is so unpopular how is that possible?

Sent from my Nexus 7

It doesn't take much to overwhelm a PC-XT with 2 floppy drives and 640Kb RAM.

 

[surfacedude]

success! everything seems on track now. now for the surface pro and the desktop when i get home. i wish the windows phone update were released today, too!

 

[Blkacesvf41]

It doesn't take much to overwhelm a PC-XT with 2 floppy drives and 640Kb RAM.

LOL, I hope that's not the tech they're running on or we're all in trouble.

Sent from my Nexus 7

 

[Blkacesvf41]

Yes! "Preparing to restart"

Sent from my Nexus 7

 

[dkp23]

So is RT smooth now? or is RT laggy still and apps are sluggish.

 

[iainmann]

OK...after the "preparing to restart" I went to the loo so don't know if it restarted! But now got another 0-100% "downloading" bar which has been doing nothing for 15 mins.

Update: It was AVG antivirus had stopped the install. After allowing it as an exception in AVG, it started the download.

 

[berty6294]

So is RT smooth now? or is RT laggy still and apps are sluggish.

Hard to tell at the moment while i'm installing 80 apps, importing my emails, contacts, music, accounts, and much more... lol

But I can surely say, that dreaded keyboard lag and bs with that is still here and I am super pissed. Actually the keyboard is more buggy then it was in the preview I am so incredibly pissed now.

 

[mms-pc]

Finally, I go through the setting up progress, now I'm in, and it says "Installing your apps", what does it means? Installing my apps I already installed from Windows Store?

 

[berty6294]

Eh another firmware update came up after the install. hopefully that fixes my keyboard problem!

 

[akshaypn]

I am just stuck on getting the update ready...could be my connection ....can I stop this midway and do it later???

 

[mms-pc]

Wow, this surprises me, I thought I only have about 6~7GB of storage space left, but after RT 8.1 update, I notice that now I have 12GB of space available!! So the update file must have been deleted automatically along with other system files!!

 

[surfacedude]

Eh another firmware update came up after the install. hopefully that fixes my keyboard problem!

some tings are snappier, but the keyboard lag is still very much there. worse in some cases. and i'm still getting the thing where upon restart or starting, the password field doesn't activate the on-screen keyboard. has only happened once so far, but i hope that's the only time. that happened to me daily w/ the preview and windows rt 8. the keyboard lag makes me think the photo editing tools and xbox music will still be very laggy. haven't tried them yet.

on a brighter note, 8.1 is definitely better than 8 and 8.1 preview. i like it. i hope they keep pushing it to perfection.

 

[Blkacesvf41]

All done with install. Played with it for a while and liking what I seen so far. Love that "Dragon" start screen background. Oh and the email app looks so much better.

 

[Corleones]

It's not showing up for me, and no, I do not have the Enterprise version installed.