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Mary Jo Foley reports at ZDNet that according to sources who've had good track records on Windows information, Microsoft won't be delivering a new Start Menu for Windows 8 with its coming Windows 8.1 Update 2, after all. "Up until recently, Microsoft was hoping to make a new "Mini" Start Menu part of a second update to Windows 8.1," says Foley. "Windows 8.1 Update 2 was and still is, last I heard slated to arrive in August of this year." Microsoft's operating systems group has decided to hold off on delivering a Microsoft-developed Start Menu until Threshold, the next "major" release of Windows. Threshold, which may or may not ultimately be called Windows 9, is expected to be released in April 2015.
The original Windows 8 interface lacked the Start Menu, a familiar component of previous versions of the operating system, replacing it with the live tile-driven Start screen. Many users didn't like the change, and some PC manufacturers and developers offered ways to bring back versions of the old Start Menu. Microsoft appeared to relent at Build when it unveiled the revised Start Menu, enhanced with Windows Modern UI improvements.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday June 04 2014, @11:24AM
Well I'm old enough to remember program manager, which was far better than both.
I'm also SNy enough to not give a damn about windows, as my laptop has been linux for 15 years, and I launch programs by hitting alt-escape to load up rxvt, then typing what I want
(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:40PM
Funny enough, Program Manager survived well until XP before it was finally removed; at least as late as Windows 98 SE, it was also properly intergrated with the Start Menu as groups would show up in both. When I upgraded from 3.1 -> 95, it even gave you the option to continue using progman (it would launch full screen, with the start menu still visible).
Still always moving