Microsoft Giving You More Time to Update to Windows 8.1
You now have until June to install Windows 8.1 Update.
Back in April, Microsoft told Windows 8.1 users to refresh their system with the new Update released earlier that month. Customers were advised to do so before May 13, the next Patch Tuesday, in order to receive additional security patches from Microsoft.
"This update will be considered a new servicing/support baseline," a Microsoft engineer said. "What this means is those users who have elected to install updates manually will have 30 days to install Windows 8.1 Update on Windows 8.1 devices; after this 30-day window (and beginning with the May Patch Tuesday), Windows 8.1 user's devices without the update installed will no longer receive security updates."
However, on Monday, Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc jumped onto the Windows Experience Blog and announced that the Windows 8.1 Update due date has moved back another 30 days so that customers have plenty of time to download and install the mandatory Update.
"While we believe the majority of people have received the update, we recognize that not all have. Having our customers running their devices with the latest updates is super important to us. And we're committed to helping ensure their safety. As a result, we've decided to extend the requirement for our consumer customers to update their devices to the Windows 8.1 Update in order to receive security updates another 30 days to June 10th," he writes.
"As noted previously, consumer customers who do not update their Windows 8.1 devices to the Windows 8.1 Update by this new deadline will no longer receive updates. We're confident that within the next month, the majority of the remaining customers who haven't updated their devices to the Windows 8.1 Update will be able to do so," LeBlanc adds.
To update Windows 8.1 manually, follow the steps here. For those who run into problems, LeBlanc suggests heading here or posting the problem in the Windows community forums.

If you have a windows 8 /8.1 oem, reinstalling windows is hell...
M$ need to fix this up.
Updating to 8.1 makes recovery disk and recovery partition unusable.
Windows 8.1 cannot create a recovery disk only recovery usb drive....
Fix that up before shoving something down costumer's throat...
Win7 is the new XP...
If you have a windows 8 /8.1 oem, reinstalling windows is hell...
M$ need to fix this up.
Updating to 8.1 makes recovery disk and recovery partition unusable.
Windows 8.1 cannot create a recovery disk only recovery usb drive....
Fix that up before shoving something down costumer's throat...
I agree reinstalling Windows 8 is a pain, even if you create a Windows 8.1 install disk, it will not allow a legal Windows 8 serial number .
no it just means you can't download any more updates until you download the windows 8.1 update 1 first.
If you have a windows 8 /8.1 oem, reinstalling windows is hell...
M$ need to fix this up.
Updating to 8.1 makes recovery disk and recovery partition unusable.
Windows 8.1 cannot create a recovery disk only recovery usb drive....
Fix that up before shoving something down costumer's throat...
I agree reinstalling Windows 8 is a pain, even if you create a Windows 8.1 install disk, it will not allow a legal Windows 8 serial number .
yeah which is stupid that would be like you installing windows 7 sp1 from a clean installed and not allowing any original windows 7 keys.
which calls into question wether or not those machines are even running windows 8, and instead have had windows 8 removed or are dual booting another OS. M$ is trying to prove to critics that their windows 8 install and user base is larger then it looks on the outside by forcing "the other half" of windows 8 machines to update, in the hopes it will quiet the critisism that those are dead installs.
Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 update
Windows 8.1 second edition update
Microsoft = Proving incompetence at every level. (Calling it 8.2 would have been logical)
Microsoft sure makes Updating their crap harder and harder. Seriously folks, Linux is easier and faster than Windows 8.
Thank GOD I AM doing just fine humming along with Windows 7.
PS: There is little to no indication that Windows 9 is going to be like Win7.
no it just means you can't download any more updates until you download the windows 8.1 update 1 first.
Which is where the crappy "journalism" of this article cuts in. This article makes it sound like you will never be able to update the OS if you do not do it now. The simple fact of the matter is that M$ has always maintained updates for OS' that have not been deprecated. In fact, I would not be surprised if someone who had never updated XP could update it to the April 8th 2014 point and get the update to IE, too. Updates beyond that point for XP, being that it is technically end-of-life, are obviously out of the question.