The first major update to Windows 8, Windows 8.1 brought back the Start button after many complaints. However, its reintroduction failed to mitigate many of the complaints. Windows 8.2 reportedly brings back its dearly departed Start menu.
Paul Thurrott at Windows IT Pro has written in greater detail about how Microsoft's vision for Windows 8.2 is all about making desktop fans happy again.. and it goes way beyond bringing back the Start Menu.
"A new team at Microsoft that's responsible for overall OS development has clearly spent the past few months evaluating and then dropping most of the 'my way or the highway' silliness that doomed the original Windows 8 release,"also,
- Thurrott noted.
"The ultimate failure of Windows 8 wasn't that Microsoft embraced mobile technologies, it was that it did so without taking into account how poor this experience would be for the 1.5 billion people who use Windows on traditional PCs."
Windows 8.1 brought back the Start menu, but takes users back to the Windows Metro Interface. Another feature that is much requested by users and may be making its way to Windows 8.2 - codenamed Threshold - is the ability to run Metro apps in Windows mode. That would mean users would be able to run apps such as Skype and Skydrive in a more traditional way without needing to use the Meto UI.
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