I rec'd an error code: 0x8086000c when trying to download ("purchase") a free app from the STORE in Windows 8. I searched for help and found all these multiple steps: check the date time stamp etc. etc.
I suspected there was a simpler answer. But was unable to find it. So I tried creating a NEW Microsoft account and then purchasing with that account (I was using what I thought was a valid account but received NO error message that no such account existed). The account I set up was the same one I had thought was already set up!
Once I had the new account set up, no problem.
WINDOWS 8 is terrible!!! WINDOWS 8.1 is WORSE!!!
I advise everyone - DON'T BUY WINDOWS 8. Stay with XP or 7. If you can't do that, get a Mac. I didn't get a Mac with my last purchase because I didn't want to take the time to learn something new. BIG MISTAKE.
I could have learned MAC easily in the time it has taken me to struggle with the crappy non-intuitive, too-many-steps Windows 8. And after HOURS AND HOURS of problems, even using paid tech support from Lenovo, I am no where near competent in using Windows 8. That's just wrong.
