Critique wrote:Four days after installing 8.1 I've dropped back down to 8.0 because it was quite unstable on my system (it didn't seem to like the drivers for the graphics card so it crashed everytime it tried to use it and when I updated the driver it would occasionally do something like what is seen in the image below (via Google Images showing another Windows 8 user with a similar issue, although everything went greyish when it happened to me and a slice of the left part of the screen shifted to the right side):
On top of all that, I don't mind not having a Start Button and as the solution in 8.1 isn't a Start Button just a bigger sized Start screen shortcut with a Windows Logo suddenly always in the corner again it annoyed me quite a bit. Also, they've changed the Search thing in the Start Screen from taking the entire Start screen space to condensing it into the tiny sidebar, which seems counter-intuitive.
However I think generally there are a fair few improvements - I just didn't see many of them.