Cant use windows 8.1 Windows Easy Transfer on Windows 8.1

Hi,

Windows Easy Transfer is removed from Windows 8.1.

Items that now can be easily transfered by using SkyDrive in combination with other services and tools, such as Xbox Music to back up your music collection, and File History to keep files always backup and up-to-date.

You may refer to the thread link and the suggestions provided by Michael Day [MSFT].

Windows Easy Transfer (Win 8.1)

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My customers are primarily legal, and cannot use your online service legally, how do I do this without the skydrive service because Microsoft gladly give all the lawyers information to any government office in the world happliy, and has no problem breaking client attorney privilege?  I can't.  Microsoft screwed the pooch horribly here.  Not only that, who transfers a hundred gigabytes over the internet.  Microsoft shareholders should dump this garbage stock and invest in someone who understands the internet and why it is used, and when it should be used.

They did the same thing with Windows Media center.  

Suppose you were rolling along, perfectly happy with Windows 7.  You install the windows 8 upgrade and BAM!  No more media center.  Oh wait, you can buy it separately.  Uh duh, I can buy a lot of things separately but I already had it before I "upgraded."

Oh yes, and if you do have media center and, God forbid, have to rebuild your machine you get to find out your Windows 8 upgrade product code is not valid after media center was installed into it so recovering your PC from a disaster is excessively difficult because of the product code gymnastics.

Ugh.  The whole thing is an unforced error.

Items that now can be easily transfered by using SkyDrive in combination with other services and tools, such as Xbox Music to back up your music collection, and File History to keep files always backup and up-to-date.

This is completely false for a significant number of users.

I tried converting over to OneDrive for Business, as my employer has supplied me with 1 TB of storage (more than enough data). However, this still isn't possible for the following reasons:

1. My company works in software development. I have many projects and files of types that are not allowed on OneDrive. Many software and web development file types are blocked. I need many of these forbidden file extensions.
2. We have many projects that packages that have a large number of small files. OneDrive is limited to something like 20,000 files! I have far more than that!

Additionally, I have read many reports of people using OneDrive when travelling, and finding themselves unable to unlock their PC because they didn't have network access. This is an unacceptable risk.

I'm sure OneDrive might work sufficiently in some basic environments, but it has some huge shortcomings that make it unacceptable for a significant numbers of users.

I too am rather upset about this feature being gone!!!!   Now I have to manually transfer files over Huff and Puff thanks Microsoft