Some disasters are easy to see coming. All you had to do was look at Windows 8 and its Metro — excuse me, Modern — interface back in its beta days and you knew it was going to fly like a pigeon with concrete overshoes. Years went by and Windows 8.1 was — better, but still basically awful. Now Windows 8.1 Update 1 is here, and I’ve been trying it for the past few weeks and, ah, the best I can say is it sucks less.

Windows 8.1 Update 1, now with less annoyance. More>