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steve2470

(37,456 posts)
Thu May 30, 2013, 07:50 AM May 2013

New screenshots of Windows 8.1 Start Button

http://www.windows81.com/2013/05/new-screenshots-of-windows-8-1-start-button/





Interesting news from Paul Thurrott.

It seems that the Start Button will be back in Windows 8.1 and it will look a whole lot like the button Start8 use in their widget.

From his blog:

And here’s a new detail that was hinted at in Mary Jo’s post: When you hover over Start button, the button changes color, with a black background and the accent color used on the flag logo. Yes, it looks exactly like the Start Charm, with similar animations.

And when you activate the Switcher app switching utility, the Start button will appear at the bottom as the Start tip does today, and has Start text in the box, as it does now.
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hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. Animated start button that changes color-just what we need, more eye candy.
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:16 AM
May 2013

I set my Win 7 machine to best performance instead of best appearance.
amazing how much faster everything responds when it doesn't have to do eye candy and just do what you want.

Gore1FL

(21,027 posts)
3. Maybe by Windows "Mauve" they'll listen.
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:10 PM
May 2013

I not only want the start button, I want what the start button used to do. I want to turn off metro, and I want it to actually work sensible in an Enterprise.

Windows 8 is a kick in the face of an Sys Admin who actually wants to provide a stable and secure desktop system to the end users. I am not keen on the 10-minute wait to install the basic metro apps on the first login. (For some of my users, every time is essentially a first login.) I'd also like to avoid explaining the difference between IE the metro app and IE the desktop app, why Metro Mail isn't the same as Outlook, why Metro calendar isn't the same as Outlook, and why their Metro address book isn't Outlook, either.

Why does Microsoft think it's a good idea to load personal apps on corporate workstations? I don't look forward to rejecting Windows Blue, too. I will do so if necessary. I was a very early adopter of Windows 7. We were testing deployment in Fall 2009 when the RTM came out. It was in production in Spring of 2010.

Windows 8 blows. It sounds like Microsoft insists on maintaining it's tone-deafness.

steve2470

(37,456 posts)
4. This OS was really very poorly thought out. Even Vista was better than this, despite its flaws
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:23 PM
May 2013

WTH were they thinking ?

Gore1FL

(21,027 posts)
5. I have a Win 8 image ready to deploy on all hardware we have at work
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:27 PM
May 2013

I am not recommending it.

Sounds like I still won't be recommending it.

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