5 years with original w8.1 install !

A little celebration, 5 years of 8.1 on Dell e7440, 1 install, never refreshed . Never crashed, never a BSOD, never locked up. Still fast and stable like day 1. Some reflect restores (hd\ssd swaps + those late night experiments, OS itself not at fault). Heavy use, travels, video & photo editing. Must say MS (and Dell) gets it right sometimes.

Stock 8.1, apart from removed store and crapps, + tamed telemetry, and was careful with the kb's. Great, underrated (and mostly forgotten) OS, & still kept alive (security) for more years.

 

Congratulations. What an achievement

 

I tend to reinstall every few months though not by design lol

 

My Yoga 2 is right behind you.

 

Daily allround laptop, w8.1 original install now in 6th year and all still well, fast and reliable (bios time is incl. entering pw). With store and crap removed, what a great and underrated OS :O)

 

& forgot about the old toshiba !! Still in much use for music & yt streaming.
7 years next month with the original w8.1 install, like the dell 7440 never a bsod or any other problem.

 

This have never been possible with the latest and greatest from Redmond. Enjoy it as long you can brother

 

Remember when we thought Windows 8 was the worst OS in history? I'd take Windows 8 over 10 any time of the day! Supports NVMe and USB 3 natively and newer hardware, no Cortana and bloatware, just install Open Shell and you're good

 

I have benched a lot with Win 8.1 on some of the old. Win 10 can't compete. I need Win 8.1. Even Win 7 can't provide better performance in some benches for the bot. With Win 10 it will only be worse the newer version you get.

 

Been on a peaceful 8.1 island with great food, rest, girls, sunny beaches while watching w10 war, flames & destruction rage around the world.
Sadly won't last forever, but am already well prepared for the journey to the promised land of ltsc :O)

Attach, the 8.1 on the old 7440, 10 sec to desktop with old msata ssd, zero activity anywhere until I myself do something. Great.

 

but at least Win8.1 is an improvement over Win8 (8.0) and Win10
I use it on a Toshiba Satellite C55DT-A (late 2013) touchscreen laptop (heck that laptop came with 8.1, not 8.0), along with using Open Shell (the successor & fork of Classic Shell).

even with the latest monthly rollup updates, Win8.1 still runs stable & well on the Toshiba laptop for almost 8 years

 

People are making alot of claims here but then again I will say this if no one else can reproduce these benchmarks on matching hardware and setups - of which they are artificial and not everyday usage that is just that Benchmarks. That's doesn't tell much of performance when working 24/7 under pressure. Benchmarks can be made to look as one wants them to look.

I've installed Windows 10 pro x64 on Dell 1525 but then again I update the hardware to work with Windows 10 when originally this was a XP O/S laptop. So there are lots of in and outs that are missing if one keeps talking benchmarks.