what a huge disappointment. I stopped the video when he first says something about just 'swiping upwards'. I thought the whole Windows 8.1 upgrade was to get RID of the stupid requirement to wipe something across your display. I just spent $2500 on two new Lenovo laptops, and guess what, they are laptops. Not some teenagers telephone.
Apparently, Microsoft has abandoned those who would create contend, in favor of squeezing a few bucks out of those who only consume it.
This is worthless to me. Sorry I waited all these months for it. Hello Apple. Meet your newest convert.

I really wish I could downgrade on my laptop from Windows 8 to XP. I agree with Gringo...I will probably go with Apple next time I need a new laptop.

Since you CAN get rid of the swipe, where is the complaint?? You do have to change the setting yourself, there are many articles out there that tell you how. If the upward swipe upsets you that much, then going to Apple would not fix things for you. For that matter, if the upward swipe is your biggest complaint, then you have no problems as it has to be the most trivial issue of Win8.

You obviously have not seen the classic start button download you can get from ninite.com which will make your desktop just like windows 7. It is great for all the people too lady to learn a new OS and just give up. Either way, there is far more security in Windows 8.1 then other versions, so feel free to talk bad about something you aren't even trying to learn.

If you have a touch screen, Win 8.1 makes sense, but i still don't get the 2 environmnet concept???? why not have one environment with touch friendly icons? It has to be the most bizzare release of an OS ever. Stability wise though, it's rock solid and it boots so fast.

Excellent another great update to improve what is fast becoming my favourite OS. My iPad sits in the corner unloved. For all those who are too lazy to learn how to use Win 8, please go to Apple and stop whingeing, you will find everything there that you need, but nothing that you want.
For the turkey who complained about having to swipe....why don't you learn to use the right mouse key FFS!! Makes me think you are nothing but paid Apple employees trying to drum up some business.
The fact that this OS provides the best of both worlds for consumers and creators shows that they are actually ahead of the curve. The Surface Pro is a beast and kicks some serious A$$.

Having teethed on an IBM 604, with punch cards and a hand wired board , back in 1956. Then IBM compatible desktops running Win 3.1, working my way up thru Win 95, Win 98, to Win XP-Pro, and now Win 7, I can't see what all the fuss is about. All of these opsys had their problems, every body complained when they had to upgrade. they all argued Windows versu Apple, and so on. I found Windows 7 really nice, and would love to see Windows 8. What is so damn hard about upgrading from one version to another. Try seting up a complete system in a hospital. Installing all the cable for the entire building, setting up each terminal, installing the software and then having to maintain the system. I did this mostly by myself, but learned a lot. I still use Win XP-Pro on my 3 main workstations (SOHO), plus one running Ubuntu for some work. Come on you people, if it's too hard for you, you need to have a 10 year old show you how. My grandson, learned to use both Mac and Windows by the age of 10. I'm looking forward to Windows 9.

@Gringo - So you are going to spend 4 times the amount of money on Macbook's that you spent on your lenovo's because there are swipe options?
You can enable the feature to boot directly to the Desktop and you don't need to swipe anything. Windows on the desktop still have the Red X, and you never need to go into the Metro Interface.
Being a hardcore Desktop Windows user for so many years I agree about some of the features but 8.1 allows for us to get our desktop back and never really need to interact with the teenager phone screen UI.. I am looking forward to installing the 8.1 Update.

Just do what i did . Install start 8 from stardock and 8gadget pack to install your gadgets . i set up my windows 8 to be like windows 7 . I know microsoft sucks alot at the moment for not listening to there consumers but you can have the best of both worlds with windows 8 . You just need to do some research on how to make it like windows 7 . I hate windows 8 as it is but modified to windows 7 i love it .

This is a funny article. It explains how to upgrade to Windows 8.1....but anybody who's read anything online this week knows that if you upgrade to 8.1, you stand a chance to brick your precious Windows tablet! Thanks, but no thanks....