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I then waited as Windows updated me of its progress installing the new operating system. Finally - after I had all but given up, the laptop told me it needed to reboot to install Windows 8.1. No hour glass or any other indication that a download was in progress. Then I stared at my laptop for about a half hour with no evidence of anything happening. I clicked on the Download icon and it took me to the Windows store but the store was empty. So, I fired up Chrome and for some reason Chrome did get me to a page telling me the Windows 8.1 is here with a link for the "free update." This time I went to in Internet Explorer and got a message telling me that Windows 8.1 would be available on October 17th. If I couldn't upgrade my desktop, I'd try it on my laptop. I then repeated the process with exactly the same results. The good news is that it did boot back into Windows 8.0. I then restarted the machine and got an error message that included a number but no clue as to what went wrong.

I waited long after I saw no disk activity and hit the power button. The Dell logo showed up on the screen but Windows didn't boot. After about a half hour the system told me that my machine needed to reboot to continue. I then clicked download and the process started. I went to and saw that Windows 8.1 is here. I woke up at 6:00 AM to upgrade my brand newĭell XPS 8700 Desktop PC, which arrived about two weeks ago with Windows 8 installed. After all, I've only written 4 books about Microsoft Windows and am pretty new to the operating system, considering that I've only been using Windows since the day they launched Windows 1.0 in 1985. Maybe I'm just not tech savvy enough to upgrade machines from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1.