There must be a way to install 8.1 without the store?

There must be a way to install 8.1 without using the store?

I work in a small shop and we're maintenance machines of Windows 8 more every week.

The only problem is that the store has been incredibly unreliable.  We kept a current to 8 machines directory and a little less than 60% of those that we have had so far this year have experienced problems getting Windows Update to work properly and to get extreme Windows 8.1 download has started and installed.  My colleagues and I have spent countless hours in the workplace and on our personal time trying to find fixes for these issues

I cannot yet give a complete list of the problems that we had because there is so much to - everything from Windows update not download, 8.1 sitting at 0% for hours or even days in some cases, or the wonderfully useless screen "something happened and cannot complete the installation of Windows 8.1."  I even had one of our business customers bring two and nine in the box, portable identical in design.  We started the update and immediate installation.  The other was sitting on our bench for three days until we could get things

We have tried everything we can to avoid these problems, but always happens on a daily basis.  Please tell me there is a way for us to upgrade all Windows 8 to 8.1 machines (that's what Microsoft wants, after all, isn't?) and to do so without the store.

No there is not. Sorry, but Microsoft made the decision to release 8.1 by download from the store window and buy purchase retail only we will not have to like it, but it's the only game in town. Personally I recommend to my family and friends if they have problems to download Windows 8.1 they purchase a full retail copy and do a clean install. This also has the advantage that if you wipe your computer in the future you don't have to be bothered by all these many updates. Hope this helps and if you need another post to help and we will be happy to help you.

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