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Microsoft is bringing the Start Menu back

Discussion in 'Microsoft News' started by Aaron Souppouris, Apr 2, 2014.

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    Millions asked for it, and Microsoft is providing it: the old Start Menu is coming back. Kind of. At its Build conference today, Microsoft announced a new Start Menu that looks like a hybrid of the best of Windows 7 and Windows 8. It's around the same size as the Windows 7 menu, but also features miniature Live Tiles along one side. It's not quite ready for the Windows 8.1 update coming later this month, but is likely to be a major selling point for the next version of Windows, thought to be called Windows 9.

    In the same demonstration, Microsoft also showed a new mode that allows modern Windows 8 apps to run in the desktop environment inside their own windows. It's a return to Windows' roots for Microsoft, and will make a lot of...

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