Beleaguered Microsoft pulls Windows RT 8.1 update; crashes Surface tablets

“Microsoft has pulled a Windows update from its website after it caused some customers’ devices to crash,” The Associated Press reports. “The company said it removed the RT 8.1 update from the Windows Store during the weekend.”

AP reports, “In place of the update, Microsoft posted an apology for the problem and said it’s trying to resolve the situation quickly. The company says it will give updates as soon as possible.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: All three Surface RT users would likely be consulting tattoo removal services already by now – except they’re all Ballmer boys, so those hideous Microsoft tattoos were a gift from daddy when each of them were newborns. And, crashes are so expected by Windows sufferers, how do they even know there’s a problem?

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Paulo R.” for the heads up.]

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