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 ...

According to the latest leaked build of Windows 8.1 (Blue), the Start button and menu will make their triumphant return -- but they won't look or work like the Windows 7 Start menu. With Windows Blue ...

Start8 restores a Start button and Windows 7-style Start menu to the Windows 8 desktop.e Stardock yesterday started selling the $5 Start8, a tool that restores a Start button to the desktop of Windows ...

I know there are still doubters out there, but from everything I've heard, the rumored Start Button is going to be part of Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1. I've heard from one of my good sources that ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Windows 10 or Windows 11 Start Button is not working or Start Menu does not open, then this post will help you. Restart after the scan is over and see if it helped. The command will replace any ...

Microsoft appears ready to concede what virtually every critic, user, and analyst knows about Windows 8: the new OS needs the Start button back, badly. Ever since Microsoft made the controversial ...