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 ...

Companies make bad decisions all the time. Some of those decisions do irreparable harm, but others—like forcing users to boot to the new Modern interface in Windows 8, and taking away the Start button ...

Microsoft’s head of Windows development on Tuesday came close to promising that the iconic Start button would return to the Windows 8 desktop, but never made a guarantee. In a 25-minute interview at ...

Get ready for the future of computing, Microsoft told us. It was making a version of Windows without a start button. It was going to rock our worlds. It was the biggest change in the Windows platform ...

This is the start of what I hope will be a long run for the Mostly Microsoft blog, and what better to start with than the issue of the Start button (or lack thereof) in Windows 8? It’s gone, according ...

When Microsoft added support for the revamped Start page into Windows 8.1, that eliminated the need for dedicated third-party Start menus, right? Wrong, say developers like Stardock, Classic Shell, ...

Whether you've been waiting to upgrade to Windows 11 or have been using Microsoft's latest operating system since its release, you don't have to live with the Start button in the middle of the task ...