Some good news for Windows 8 haters – the Start Button’s return has all but been confirmed by leaked screenshots of a pre-release version of Windows 8.1, although perhaps in the way you were hoping ...

With Windows Blue, aka Windows 8.1, Microsoft is reintroducing a Start button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for ...

Among the many new features that will be added in Windows 8.1 will be the appearance of a Start Button. This single news has bought smiles to many Windows 8 users, who were missing the Window Start ...

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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 ...

Because Microsoft thinks it knows what’s best for users and apparently wants to confuse the living daylights out of them, Windows 8 has no Start button. I’ll just say that again so it sinks in: ...