Yes, I agree. It's an awful lot of megabytes for seemingly little change. I think a lot of the update is relevant to smaller devices with touch screens and not so much for desktops.
The update also includes compatibility changes to support a wider range of hardware which wouldn't have any visible effect.

April 29, 2013

After playing a little, I found the biggest and best change is to be able to deactivate the hot corners and navigate with the start button back to the start page. I use very few apps but I can pin the ones I use to my taskbar, it is at least a step to make the desktop computer more compatible with windows 8. I believe the update had to be installed to be able to receive other updates for 8.1. At 756MB it was like a SP than a regular update, I can see why some computers had troubles downloading and installing the update. Daniel.
I actually like the hot corner menus, especially the Win-X menu. I think having the taskbar available in both environments is a nice touch, saves the odd click click here and there. I also like the addition of a title bar for open apps, the previous method for closing apps was a tad clumsy.
Most Users Ever Online: 2303
Currently Online:
33 Guest(s)
Currently Browsing this Page:
1 Guest(s)
Member Stats:
Guest Posters: 11
Members: 2886
Moderators: 6
Admins: 4
Forum Stats:
Groups: 8
Forums: 20
Topics: 1879
Posts: 13310
Administrators: Jim Hillier, Richard Pedersen, David Hartsock, Marc Thomas
Moderators: Carol Bratt, dandl, Jason Shuffield, Jim Canfield, Terry Hollett, Sergey Grankin