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Solve : List of software blocked or disabled during Windows 8.1 upgrade? |
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Answer» Credit: List of software that may be blocked or disabled during Windows 8.1 upgrade Microsoft has also released a list of software that may be AFFECTED during the BEHAVIOR. Source: Compatibility update for the web and media upgrade experience is available for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Quote from: Microsoft Support A compatibility update for the web and media upgrade experience is available. This update improves the web and media upgrade experience when you upgrade to the latest version of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Additionally, this update offers the latest compatibility status of the applications, devices, and drivers that are already installed on your computer.The horror stories i'm seein are overblown in my opinion... However to MS's fault they did rush this release to market so they deserve the criticism as i see it... It's a much shorter list then what I expected. Not surprised to see multiple over priced, over bloated security suites though.Quote from: patio on October 22, 2013, 07:12:25 PM However to MS's fault they did rush this release to market so they deserve the criticism as i see it...Windows 8.1 went through several preview releases- the Developer Preview and the Consumer Preview, at the very least; as well as a 8.1 RC made available on MSDN. This occured over a much faster cadence than would occur for a new OS release, but it was also fundamentally a 'update' release that was designed to REWORK some of Windows 8. If Microsoft releases software this quickly, people say it's Rushed. If they wait three years between releases, they call them big and slow. Looking at the article, we see that some of the affected applications/apps will not be brought forward because they simply don't work on Windows 8.1. (SuperNova and Searchqu Toolbar) Most likely they only worked on 8.0 by coincidence, and they used undocumented behaviour and tried to exploit it in some manner and that undocumented behaviour changed in 8.1. Otherwise it seems like most of the affected software is AV programs. It should surprise nobody that AV software would be disabled given the fact that such AV software would probably detect the update process as malicious since it's basically rewriting all the system files. Some of the applications just get updated automatically to resolve possible issues they might have running under 8.1. The fact that the update actually does these things is a proactive action- if it didn't apply these updates and disable some software, the update would either fail (the AV software) or Applications wouldn't work properly. |
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