The start button will be back in Microsoft's next Windows release, though it's not the feature it was before Windows 8. June 26, 2013 9:47 AM PDT Steve Ballmer at Microsoft Build 2013. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlighted the return of the start button on Windows 8 at its Build developers conference Wednesday in San Francisco. The news got a round of applause from the audience, but it may not be everything users had hoped for. Ballmer said users can also boot to the desktop and the Start screen has been tweaked to see many applications at a glance. Check out CNET's review of Windows 8.1 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 will be back in Microsoft's next Windows release, though it's not the feature it was before Windows 8.
Steve Ballmer at Microsoft Build 2013.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlighted the return of the start button on Windows 8 at its Build developers conference Wednesday in San Francisco.
The news got a round of applause from the audience, but it may not be everything users had hoped for. Ballmer said users can also boot to the desktop and the Start screen has been tweaked to see many applications at a glance.
Check out CNET's review of Windows 8.1 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.
