The tablet slots into the top of the keyboard dock, with the Windows 8 button obscured slightly by the top of the dock.
Here's a sight to make Mac-lovers cringe: a Windows "Start" button on the Mac desktop.
Removing the Start button in Windows 8 is Microsoft's first misjudgment.
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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.
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.
Users can still switch to a more traditional desktop mode by clicking on an icon, but the environment lacks the start menu button offered since Windows 95.
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.
RetroUI Pro allows you to brings back features which Microsoft removed in Windows 8, such as the Start Button and Start Menu, and adds RetroUI exclusive features that allow you to run the new Windows 8 Start Screen and new Windows 8 Apps on the classic Windows desktop.
The button layout follows the Windows Phone template -- there's the trio of capacitive buttons below the screen, with three physical plastic buttons along the right edge.
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There has been significant backlash over the lack of a Start button, and other elements of Windows 8.
This reading had warned me about a supposed huge flaw in Windows 8, which was that the START button had been eliminated.
Visually, the software looks like a version of Windows with touch-screen features, like a button to activate the keyboard, duct taped on top.
You can expect an FM radio inside, while the Windows Phone staple, a two-stage camera button, is also reliably housed along the right edge with the volume rocker.
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In addition to touch functionality, the slim ThinkPad Edge E431 and E531 laptops feature improved graphics options for more vivid content on their displays up to full HD and a five-button ClickPad that allows users to control Windows 8 features from the keyboard.
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As you probably know, there's no Start button, and the Start Menu is comprised of Windows Phone-esque Live Tiles.
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That very same section houses the central Windows key (complete with new logo) as well as back button and search key.
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Quitting applications means clicking on a "Done" button--not on an esoteric "X" like Windows.
Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system.
Support for customized experiences and branding from boot to shut down, so apps can take advantage of Windows with a customized look and feel from the first press of the power button.
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With the touch of a button, water cascades down the foyer's 24-foot oceanfront windows, creating sheeting water walls.
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While the Mobile Mouse has just the Start key and a scroll wheel, though, the bigger Comfort Mouse takes things a step further: the button there doubles as a capacitive surface you can swipe to toggle through open programs in Windows 8.
With Windows 8, Microsoft made many radical changes, not the least of which being the deletion of the fabled Start button.
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