Perhaps, but that is also a two-way street. If I am in the business of manufacturing and selling a performance gaming mouse, and I charge a premium for that product because of my mouse's reputation for quality, then I consider it part of my job to be informed about new developments within Windows. Windows 8 and 8.1 were not sprung upon the computer world in a surprise release. Hardware manufacturers and software developers have had plenty of time to work with Microsoft to ensure that an expensive performance gaming mouse behaves properly.
Things works good but had to reinstall office and printer drivers to be able to print the problem was office sent print order but printer don't wanna see it
Betas and RTM versions of Windows 8.1 have been in circulation long enough for them to have been informed.
6 weeks old, it's a HP Envy m6 1232ea this laptop was the first I updated, didn't look into the support just dived in.
Likewise, you are assuming that Microsoft did not inform hardware and software developers about upcoming changes to the Windows platform. As Nexxo pointed out, they've had a lot of time to test Beta and RTM releases. In addition to that, there is the MSDN blogs and the Windows blog that have information that may be discussed before the various releases.
They can't have done much testing on the Atom win 8 platform, seeing as MS locked this hardware in you'd think it would work with the update, the new drivers come out of sleep now but in 1024x768, rubbish!!!
Quick point: Microsoft got rid of Libraries by default, but file history still only backs up from Libraries not folders. ???
And the 'save to skydrive' and 'save to external drive' by default options essentially just modify the default save locations for the Documents and Music/Video libraries respectively... Could've sworn file history let you specify individual folders [and which libraries] to backup...
It only lets you exclude Libraries and folders. Not add Folders. I create a "Backup" library, then exclude all other libraries and add folders I want backed up to the "Backup" library. It does feel a bit like when the decided Libraries were not being used and removed them by default they just forgot to update File History to be fully functional by default in 8.1. It's not like it's a legacy feature. It has metro access and everything
OK... so you cant install this on an HP Microserver if you have the internal built in Broadcom Gigabit NIC enabled in BIOS - Cheers Broadcom/Microsoft.....
libraries are still there as far as I can tell, just hidden, right click the section on the left of file explorer and show libraries
They are still there, I read wolfticket's comment more along the lines of 'why hide something that is the backbone of several major features of windows, namely homegroup, file history and in 8.1 save to skydrive/external drive by default'
Pretty much this. Also non-upgrade 8.1 installs are few and far between at the moment, but I've read (and this could be wrong) that no libraries are created automatically in 8.1, which would effectively kill file history dead if you just select a drive and switch it on.
What is worse, they still don't allow NAS drives running on non-MS OS, because "they cannot be indexed".
Well seeing as none of the problems that are being reported showed up in the beta's or the RTM i would say Microsoft done some last minute changes, like the 658 updated packages released in the QFE between the RTM on the 6th Sept and GA last week. Is it expected for hardware and software vendors to develop new drivers/patches because of major changes made to the OS in the space of two week ? No assumptions made here, going on the reaction of Logitech Product Team it would seem the reports from customers is the first they knew about it. http://forums.logitech.com/t5/G-series-Gaming-Mice/Warning-Windows-8-1-has-problems-with-gaming-mice/td-p/1112059 If the knew about the problem i would have expected something along the lines of, "we are aware of the problem and should have a fix soon"
