Booglebox, the small laptop I bought to replace my 11 year old Dell Latitude X200, which gave up the ghost last week, came with Win8.1 and I have now downloaded all available updates from Microsoft.
But what a POS even Win8.1 update 1 is. No 'All Programs' list, non-intuitive requirements to create desktop shortcuts - and it came with Office Home and Student pre-installed, which includes Word 2013
! Fortunately this laptop will only be connected to the kitchen TV's HDMI socket review documents created elsewhere and to have Internet available.
I'm also getting compatability issues using Win8.1 and IE11 with some websites, whereas Firefox runs just fine.
The whole Win8 / Office 2013 saga has been a complete and utter disaster. Whichever geeks dreamed up this cr@p should be forced to sit in front of Win7.1 machine running Office 2007 and be told "Look at this - that's what customers want! Now go and sort it out or look for another job!".