Microsoft Windows 8.1

The Windows 8.1 upgrade download is slow as…..

October 17, 2013

The Windows 8.1 upgrade download is slow today. It starts out and has taken me almost 2 hours to download and I have a really fast connection.

So you start out in the Windows Store and see the screen below..

Then you click to update for free..

Then you start downloading

And there you have it folks…

Still downloading.

It seems like there are a lot of people downloading this right now (to state the obvious)…

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By Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson is a writer for The Redmond Cloud - the most comprehensive source of news and information about Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Cloud. He enjoys writing about Azure Security, IOT and the Blockchain.

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Well instead of doing a download of a couple hours just wait a couple hours and try again

Ray C October 17, 2013 9:08 am Reply
- Its done now..
  
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  Onuora Amobi October 17, 2013 9:47 am Reply
Or do it in the wee hours….

The_Norseman October 17, 2013 11:51 am Reply
My entire download/install process took about 2.5 hours. Maybe about half of that was the download.

Robert Christopher Hayes October 17, 2013 2:30 pm Reply
I think instead of downloading right now I’ll wait the ISO image tomorrow

Leonardo Jr Flojo October 17, 2013 3:02 pm Reply
DUH! how many people is trying to download at the same time?

colphoenix October 17, 2013 4:19 pm Reply
Or…, come over to Africa and live with the fact that it will be a slow download by default. Really guys, perhaps commenting on the actual product would be better, yes its slow but we all cant have everything now can we.

Ben Symington October 18, 2013 4:38 am Reply