A Real Start Menu for Windows 8.1

There has been some major developments in the Windows world starting with adjustments to licensing programs, better ways to get desktop apps to smartphones and a real start menu.

Yes that is right, Microsoft has promised to bring back a real start menu similar to the one we have come to enjoy ever since the days of Windows 95.

You heard right, devout desktop lovers: The Start menu is coming back to Windows, Microsoft operating system head Terry Myerson announced at Build on Wednesday.

The details are hazy, aside from the fact that it's going to be pushed to all Windows 8.1 users as an update at some point in the future. But it's a-coming—though it's not quite the Start menu you're familiar with. Beyond the traditional mouse-friendly features, the Windows 8.1 Start menu will be crammed with Live Tiles, along with the ability to find and install Microsoft's universal Windows apps, also announced Wednesday.

By the looks of it they plan to bring back a vertical menu we are familiar with but since they still need to shove metro down our visual throats have decided to hang tiles off the side. 

My guess is that an order came down to reverse negativity surrounding Windows 8 and instead of a blatant "fuck you" from the UI designers, like last time, they figured a viewport populated with what everyone hates was a nice compromise.

Either way I'm happy to see they are finally making some progress or really good at lasting april fools jokes.

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