said by BlitzenZeus:You will have to install 8.1 sooner, or later, they already said they are going to end support for Win 8, but you will still get it's eol if you apply 8.1
You just had to get past that screen where they try to trap users into a cloud account.
OMG 9yrs from now I won't get support for Win 8, I better hurry and get that service pack installed.