Windows 8.1, part 5 - achievement unlocked

The rest of last night involved pointing the box at the Win 8.1 upgrade site, and letting it get on with downloading the update and restarting itself several times while I watched the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Having unlocked that achievement, I started installing software this evening. I would have installed a trial of Norton, except it turns out there's already a trial of Macafee as a pre-install. I discovered this when they started complaining about each other... After that came Chrome and Firefox, before I took credit card in hand and headed off to Microsoft's HUP website, where I quite legally bought Office Professional for £8.95. Of course, this licence goes bye-bye if $EMPLOYER stops participating in the HUP, but I still have an Office 2010 licence.

I had some issues with installing Office, mostly to do with it not being obvious whether or not it was installing. But it seems to be on there now. It's just that I have to search for it with the search function to start it. I want my Start menu back. :-(

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