Even though I dropped AT&T like a hot rock a few months ago, I still have a phone with AT&T baseband and am thus beholden to their rather pokey release schedule.

So, while the rest of the world has been cheerfully running Windows phone 8.1 for MONTHS now, I’ve been staring mournfully at two miserable rows of tiles wondering what I’d done wrong.

I was starting to quite lose faith, if I’m honest.

Today, therefore, it came as quite a shock to actually get an update notification. 30 minutes of staring at progress bars later, my start screen now looks like this beauty:

And life is good.