Windows 8 stunk. It might have helped cost chief executive Steve Ballmer his job. Windows 8.1 was a bit better — but if you love it, you have only a month or so left to enjoy it. Microsoft will kill ...

Or a Recovery Drive Partition? Is it just a way to boot the machine in order to get to the refresh and re-install options? I can do that with my Windows 8.1 install USB that I created to install 8.1 ...