TechByter Worldwide 2013.10.27: Adobe Illustrates the Point; Trouble on the Road to Windows 8.1; and Short Circuits.

Sometimes I'm puzzled by Adobe Illustrator, but the Creative Cloud version has some features designers will like. People who have upgraded to Windows 8.1 have generally had success, but some surprising problems await, too. In Short Circuits, this is definitely the year of the tablet, Facebook allows and then drops a beheading, and a couple of well known tech writers leave their newspapers.