{"id":243,"date":"2012-02-05T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T04:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2019-07-27T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T02:15:07","slug":"windows-8-no-more-start-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/windows-8-no-more-start-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 &#8211; No More &#8220;Start&#8221; Button?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/microsoft\/2012\/2\/5\/2768471\/windows-8-start-button-removed-consumer-preview\">The Verge<\/a> is reporting that Windows 8 will be dropping the &#8220;Start&#8221; button. This will be\u00a0 interesting, as the Start button has been in all Windows iterations since Windows 95. It remains to be seen whether there will be an option to re-enable the Start button, whether officially or via a registry hack.<\/p>\n<p>I personally have mixed feelings about MetroUI. I have had a chance to use it on a phone (via Windows Phone 7.5), tablet (ASUS EeeSlate EP121), and desktop. While MetroUI works well with touch-based devices, it just feels awkward on traditional mouse and keyboard computers. With this latest change, the push towards MetroUI as the dominant UI is ever more present, with the &#8220;legacy&#8221; Windows desktop seemingly taking a diminished role in Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 is still in development, but as the ETA for the Windows 8 Beta is on track for the end of February (with retail release being towards the end of 2012), we will get a chance to see what other changes Microsoft has made to Windows 8 since the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/br229518\">Windows Developer Preview<\/a> build.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source<\/strong><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/microsoft\/2012\/2\/5\/2768471\/windows-8-start-button-removed-consumer-preview\">The Verge &#8211; Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in &#8216;Consumer Preview&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge is reporting that Windows 8 will be dropping the &#8220;Start&#8221; button. This will be\u00a0 interesting, as the Start button has been in all Windows iterations since Windows 95. It remains to be seen whether there will be an option to re-enable the Start button, whether officially or via<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,103,102,25],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-start-button","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}