finally tablets also can have Windows RT which is still windows 8 but for portable ARM devices. I'm afraid there's no windows 8.a that i know of, it will be either 8(.0) or 8.1 both of these have a few editions: home (aka "basic" and "core"), pro, enterprise. thank youįorgive the long post, please read it carefully as you'll have to make a decision. Thanks, not sure where to go with this issue. Windows media play can not open any file including. As in when i opened them, all formatting was screwed up and nothing was at all the way i designed it. Im not a purest for one over the other at all.Īlso, note sure if related but all my libre presentations got corrupted. I migrated from ubuntu 12.10 to win 8.1 and its driving me crazy, HOWEVER, i do love windows. On a side note, vmplayer is acting dstrangely slow and random. Second issue, when i click sign out so i can power off, on average takes 17 minutes to sign out. This is even after a clean restart and giving a 5 minute buffer time for things to load. The longest i had to wait was almost 2 minutes. No matter what file or folder i RIGHT click on, it takes roughly 45 seconds to bring up the menu. before i send back to hp to get fix i though i thought i would ask here. I do not mind the layout, its the performance of it that bugs me. However, its been a while since i could afford a new laptop and now i have one but this windows 8.a is somewhat of a hassle. I have read toms hardware since 2004 and have used it to compare specs of hardware.