Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system.
There has been significant backlash over the lack of a Start button, and other elements of Windows 8.
Mercifully, you sometimes have to hit a start button to play the video, and, of course, turn your audio on.
From the beginning of Microsoft's mobile efforts in the PDA era, its touchscreen phone software has had a Start button and windows that could be minimized like the classic Windows desktop.
The ScanJet comes with good documentation (including a first-rate multimedia tour), and sports a handy start button that you can customize to launch the software you want to use when scanning.
Right there in the dock is a sight that in another era would have given Apple Computer's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) fiercest defenders fits of panic: a Windows "Start" button available on a Mac.
Tapping on any of the home screen's bubbly icons will pull up a flat app page, offering users a "start" button that can be used to launch the associated application.
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Double click start button, you get a button that when clicked will let you take a photo.
It's now called a "Start Tip" as it isn't a proper button, but you can click on it and bring up the tiled Start Screen interface.
Here's a sight to make Mac-lovers cringe: a Windows "Start" button on the Mac desktop.
Suddenly, swinging, come-hither horns set up a multilayered tribal breakdown, as if the band is jamming the "start" button on a modern-day Freddie Mercury revival.
Though it sacrifices genuine leather in favor of a rubber coating, its contours and features are similar, down to the Engine Start button (here, a d-pad) and the turn signals (replaced with face buttons).
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If a show was live, I tapped a Watch button to immediately start watching it.
It comes well equipped with features like push-button start, a rear-view camera and the Sync and MyFord Touch multimedia control systems.
The temptation is to just keep tapping the button a dozen times, but since it's one button to start and stop you run the risk of turning it on and then back off again.
Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) is working on a service called "Start Over" that will allow digital cable subscribers to press a button and restart any program already underway from its beginning.
Why do console game require pressing START button to go through a redundant splash screen?
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The 24-year-old, who becomes the third British driver on the grid alongside McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, made a solid start to his first full season in F1, testing the 2010 car in Valencia last week.
Clarke have popularized the idea of a space elevator, there are still a few kinks that need to be worked out before we start having folks hit the "door close" button for a 100, 000 kilometer (62, 000 miles) ride.
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"When I found out, I was excited because I felt like it was a reset button and we got to really start from scratch and explore more things, " she explains.
Then like a giant reset button, it will enable us start over anew.
When we first reported on Start8, a mod that brings the tried-and-tested Start button back to Windows 8, it was impossible to know how fiercely the fires of controversy would burn over Microsoft's new interface.
Hamilton's teammate Jenson Button will start from fourth after he enjoyed a much improved qualifying performance, having struggled for much of the season after winning the opening race of the season.
At the end of my column, I suggested people start a campaign to get Facebook to create an eye-roll button.
This reading had warned me about a supposed huge flaw in Windows 8, which was that the START button had been eliminated.
With a dedicated video record button on the top, users can instantly start recording videos while shooting photos without having to make any extra setting adjustments.
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Tap the screen, pull up a search box, enter your destination, and tap the 'Start' button.
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To authenticate a key, it is placed in the USB slot at the front of the device and the "Copy" button is held in until the MyDitto emits a beep to start the process.
The brand began offering push-button start in 2007 on its Altima mid-size sedan, a mainstream product if ever there was one, and has continued to expand the offering across its portfolio.
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