Microsoft details the changes coming to Windows. May 30, 2013 — -- The Start button is getting a fresh start. Microsoft has revealed some of the changes coming to Windows 8.1 and, as expected ...

How does the Windows 8.1 Start Button work? Microsoft will be only changing the Start “tip” or Power Menu or WinX Menu to the familiar Windows logo.

ZDNet The new Start Button supposedly will look just like the Start Button that is currently part of the Charms menu in Windows 8: An angled, stylized window (like the one at right here).

Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.

Because Microsoft thinks it knows what’s best for users and apparently wants to confuse the living daylights out of them, Windows 8 has no Start button. I’ll just say that again so it sinks in ...

Most internal builds of Windows 8.1 do not include the Start button or boot to desktop options, but Microsoft is said to be planning how to add these into the operating system.

With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

A quick guide to re-enable the Windows 8 Start menu and Start button orb.

Windows Blue could restore the Start button, boot straight to the desktop "Windows 8.1" may let you pretend that the Start screen never happened.

A square Start button is also fixed to the lower left of the screen in the traditional desktop view in Windows 8 (pictured above).

A new tool called “StartIsGone” will allow users to make the Windows 8 Start button go away again. Seriously.