The start button is back in Microsoft's latest Windows release, but it's still not the feature it was before. June 26, 2013 9:47 AM PDT Steve Ballmer at Microsoft Build 2013. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer officially announced the return of the start button on Windows 8 at the Microsoft Build developers conference on Wednesday. The news got a round of applause from the audience, but it may not be everything users had hoped for. Baller said users can also boot to the desktop and the Start screen has been tweaked to see many applications at a glance. Check out the full Windows 8.1 review here, and read more news from the conference on CNET's live blog. Donna Tam Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
The start button is back in Microsoft's latest Windows release, but it's still not the feature it was before.
Steve Ballmer at Microsoft Build 2013.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer officially announced the return of the start button on Windows 8 at the Microsoft Build developers conference on Wednesday.
The news got a round of applause from the audience, but it may not be everything users had hoped for. Baller said users can also boot to the desktop and the Start screen has been tweaked to see many applications at a glance.
Check out the full Windows 8.1 review here, and read more news from the conference on CNET's live blog.
Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
