Microsoft highlights the Start button and more in new Windows 8.1 advertisement (video)

Microsoft has uploaded a new video to its Windows YouTube channel, offering us a thirty second TV commercial that showcases the power of Windows 8.1. Microsoft is touting “one experience for ...
The Drum

Finally, Microsoft brings back the Start button in Windows 8.1

The omission of the start button was one of the things old customers disliked most about the new system. Its return is one of a number of improvements aimed at mollifying disgruntled PC customers .
PC World

Five tools to bring the Start menu back to Windows 8.1

If you’re frustrated by the lack of a Start menu on Windows 8 but want to move your experience forward rather than bring back the Start menu of yore, try Pokki. When Windows 8.1 ships tomorrow, the ...

Lenovo to pre-install Pokki’s Start menu software on new Windows 8 PCs

SweetLabs’ Pokki software, which has been downloaded by millions of Windows 8 users frustrated with the lack of a start button/menu, will now be pre-installed on new Lenovo Windows 8 PCs. This new ...
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‘Start’ button devs say Windows 8.1 doesn’t put them out of business

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, ...