Windows 8.1.1

[Simon]

Windows 8.1.1(?) released yesterday.  Took an hour to update my laptop! 

[Gary]

Windows 8.1.1(?) released yesterday.  Took an hour to update my laptop! 

Only takes me 20 mins to download a whole new version of OS X 

[Technical Ben]

It's a strange update cycle for Windows 8. It's not helpful to have a "forced restart" when your trying to work due to an update, but the replacement in Win8 is "will update in 4 days time". Can't they just ask us to reboot like before?

[zappaDPJ]

Can't they just ask us to reboot like before?

Only the professional version of Windows 7 gave you that option. The home version would ask but if you failed to reply because you were not the PC or were in full screen mode it rebooted anyway. I can't for the life of me understand why they insist on doing this.

[Technical Ben]

Yeah, had it happen during an important presentation one day. The laptop just did "shutdown, updating". Although it's not impossible something did not trigger it erroneously.