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• Windows 8.1 Update woes continue with errors 80070020, 80073712, 800F081F, 80242FFF, and 800F0922

  Posted on April 11, 2014 at 00:14 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  WSUS is still down, as general update failures and complaints pile up in the two days since the release of Windows 8.1 Update.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security April 2014 Black Tuesday, Windows 8.1 update

• Update your Windows 8.1 Update — you’re missing KB 2934018

  Posted on April 9, 2014 at 23:15 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you installed Windows 8.1 Update from the MSDN bits (or the torrent version) that circulated last week, you didn’t get the latest version.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 8.1 update

• Microsoft removes Windows 8.1 Update from WSUS servers

  Posted on April 9, 2014 at 06:58 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you get your Windows updates through Windows Update directly, this announcement doesn’t affect you.

  But if you get your Windows updates through a corporate distribution center – a WSUS update server – then you’re going to have to wait to get Windows 8.1 Update.

  Seems that the folks distributing Windows 8.1 Update have a snarly bug that goes like this: If you install Windows 8.1 Update, you suddenly won’t be able to use WSUS to look for more patches.

  The details are a little more complicated than that, but suffice it to say that if your admin has WSUS set to its defaults, installing Windows 8.1 Update zaps the connection to the WSUS server.

  Accordingly, Microsoft has pulled Windows 8.1 Update from the chute that feeds WSUS update servers.

  (Apologies for the conflicting use of the term “update” but it ain’t my fault!)

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 8.1 update

• Microsoft sorta confirms that Windows 8 users will continue to get updates

  Posted on April 8, 2014 at 05:09 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  As I mentioned in the comments, it isn’t clear if Windows 8 customers will continue to get patches after April 8.

  Windows 8.1 customers MUST upgrade to Windows 8.1 Upgrade, in order to get patches.

  In short, if you have Windows 8, and haven’t yet gone to Windows 8.1, it might be a good idea to wait a bit on installing 8.1, until the picture’s clearer.

  Mary Jo Foley appears to confirm this weird situation, but cautions that “I have a question into Microsoft’s Windows team to triple check that this is the case.”

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 8.1 update

• Windows 8.1 Update KB 2919355 fails with error 0×80070003

  Posted on April 3, 2014 at 19:26 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Is this just an isolated incident, or the harbinger of things to come?

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 8.1 update

• Windows 8.1 has hit end of life

  Posted on April 3, 2014 at 18:35 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  As surely as Windows XP

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows News Windows 8.1 update

• Windows 8.1 Update — required for all future Win8.1 updates — released on MSDN

  Posted on April 3, 2014 at 04:01 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Yep, you read that right.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows News Windows 8.1 update

• Review: Windows 8.1 Update offers an olive branch for mouse users

  Posted on March 24, 2014 at 15:30 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The Win 8.1 Update is ho-hum at best, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows News, Windows Patches/Security Windows 8.1 update

• Problems with Windows/RT 8.1 updates continue, with 0xc000000d error workaround

  Posted on October 22, 2013 at 20:21 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Note that Microsoft just brought back the Windows RT 8.1 update – details here http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfwinrt-surfupdate/why-isnt-the-windows-rt-81-upgrade-available-in/ec3b52bd-8072-4b9a-8de1-64c2e4c05551

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 8.1 update, Windows RT 8.1
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