Leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 8 build show that Microsoft has jettisoned the traditional Windows 8 Start button but tweaked the Charms Bar and other settings. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Windows 8.1, which will be available for download in a preview version on June 26, will feature the good old Start button in desktop mode. Users who dislike the new Modern UI/Metro interface will also ...

When it came to light that Microsoft was planning to remove the Start button from Windows for good, many ardent fans of its functionality were unhappy. Now, Microsoft has explained why it made the ...

With Windows 10 seemingly just around the corner, Microsoft plans to fix one of its most egregious mistakes with Windows 8: the missing Start menu. By now you may know the story, as the company has ...

Speaking with U.K. publication PC Pro, a Microsoft program manager claims that people were no longer using the Start button. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

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Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft’s PC operating system, will be a radical change for people who pick it up for the first time, with a primary screen based on tiles similar to the Windows Phone ...

What if Microsoft relented and granted users who are lukewarm about Windows 8 two of their biggest requests: Allow those who want to boot straight to the desktop, and bring back the Start button with ...

Love it or hate it, Windows 8’s most significant user interface change is the Start screen and its accompanying Metro environment. It replaced the classic Start menu and is the first thing you’ll see ...

Microsoft explains why it killed the traditional versions of the Start menu and Start button in the company’s new Windows 8 operating system. Microsoft explains why it killed the traditional versions ...