Here's a sight to make Mac-lovers cringe: a Windows "Start" button on the Mac 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.
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.
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.
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.
This reading had warned me about a supposed huge flaw in Windows 8, which was that the START button had been eliminated.
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.
There has been significant backlash over the lack of a Start button, and other elements of Windows 8.
As you probably know, there's no Start button, and the Start Menu is comprised of Windows Phone-esque Live Tiles.
Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system.
With Windows 8, Microsoft made many radical changes, not the least of which being the deletion of the fabled Start button.
Pressure has been building for Windows 8 PCs to launch the familiar desktop view when turned on -- and to bring back the "start" button featured in the lower left corner of the screen in previous releases.
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