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Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by protomyth on Sunday May 10, 2015 @05:35PM (#9521415)
"Care to tell me what your issue is with Windows 8.1?"

You answered your own question with this line:

"There are a variety of third party applications and workarounds that can effectively re-patch explorer.exe to completely disable Modern UI and bring back the old start menu (think Start Is Back)."

Making a deploy image that doesn't try to get computers to sign in to Microsoft's cloud services and doesn't require patching or extensive training is very much a problem. We skipped 8 like we skipped Vista.

Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions by everyone on Sunday May 10, 2015 @06:16PM (#9521596)
Its quite buggy and unstable too