From: synth.virtuoso@gmail.com   
      
   Just in case anybody here was wondering.  :-)   
      
   Actually I was able to upgrade all three of my machines -- my main desktop   
   rig, my laptop, and my Surface RT -- in about two hours Thursday evening.  The   
   rest of the night was spent looking around and tweaking my settings.   
      
   So if you ask me, that's pretty impressive.  The only weird thing that was   
   happening was the fact that the tile to click on for the upgrade in the store   
   kept disappearing and reappearing.  And from what I've heard, some people have   
   been experiencing    
   issues.  But with me, I didn't encounter a single hiccup.   
      
   All in all I'm pretty happy with everything.  Yes, the good ol' Start button   
   is back.  I was already used to it not being there, but I guess this is what   
   people wanted.  Hopefully the changes in 8.1 that make it easier to focus on   
   the desktop will make    
   that crowd happy.   
      
   Big improvements to the Start screen and built-in apps like Mail (Mail is   
   actually usable now), SkyDrive is more integrated, search has expanded, and   
   the upgrade even solved one problem I was having where some of my stuff wasn't   
   getting synced properly    
   to my laptop.  Now it is.   
      
   The past few days I've been using my machines and haven't run into any issues   
   -- been doing a little gaming, finished up a project using SONAR X3, etc. --   
   so at this point I can say so far so good.  Hopefully it goes on that way.   
      
   Peace.   
      
   --   
   Erich K.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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