Apparently, the application update issues started to crop up after the most recent set of updates were applied earlier this month. Selected Surface RT users have reported that they were unable to gain access to the Windows Store or Windows Update after applying the January 8 Patch Tuesday updates, while others could go through the motion of applying the update, without completing it. Nice to know that Microsoft takes their updates seriously and hopefully from early February onwards when the next Patch Tuesday arrives, such issues would be a thing of the past.