Microsoft details the changes coming to Windows. May 30, 2013 — -- The Start button is getting a fresh start. Microsoft has revealed some of the changes coming to Windows 8.1 and, as expected ...

How does the Windows 8.1 Start Button work? Microsoft will be only changing the Start “tip” or Power Menu or WinX Menu to the familiar Windows logo.

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.

Most internal builds of Windows 8.1 do not include the Start button or boot to desktop options, but Microsoft is said to be planning how to add these into the operating system.

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 ...

With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

The Start icon right-click menu options in vanilla Windows 8. Microsoft also has a few other tweaks planned for Windows 8.1 that coincide with the return of the Start button.

Going away? The Start Button as it appears in the lower left of the traditional desktop view in the public Windows 8 Developer Preview.

A quick guide to re-enable the Windows 8 Start menu and Start button orb.