Clicking the desktop option opens a Window that contains – actually not much. The familiar start button went missing in Windows 8 and ... download and inspect the code before installing it.

“The start button shortcut to the start screen that Microsoft is providing with Windows 8.1 does not replace the start menu in the eyes of our growing customer base,” Robert McElroy, the ...

Microsoft is reportedly removing legacy code from its Windows 8 operating system ... known UI hacks that enabled the Start Button in the Consumer Preview do not work on the Release Preview.

That comfort level has left some confused, and others calling for the return of the Start button to Windows 8 ... but we’re not going to be stubborn,” Larson-Green says.

Microsoft launched today its first ever public release of Windows 8.1, confirming what we already thought we knew: the return of the Start button (although the Start menu remains absent), the ...

Credentials She has a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse University. Windows 11's Start button has a new home: the bottom center of the screen. Microsoft showed off the new placement ...