windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning

[Angrboda]

between xp and 7, how I should have been.

err... no, not what it should have been!
Win8 should have been better than win7...
I'm still a happy win7 user, as the sticker on my laptop isn't good for win8...

Every iteration of an os changes things, that's why it's a different release. I find that many people equate an os being different with it being worse, likely because everybody has different ideas about what should change and what should remain the same, and they mistake the fact of their personal preferences in the matter not being followed for a fault in the new design. I know it took me forever to get used to the new location of things in XP after being used to where they were in NT, but that wasn't a fault in the OS. There may be legitimate faults in 8, but most of the bitches I hear are nothing but bullshit from people still stuck in the "fanboi" stage.

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You understand that there's a difference between the OS build version and the kernel version, yes?

...I do not think it means what you think it means.