Several months ago we were one of the first newsletters to report that Microsoft would add a start button and a user option to boot to the desktop in Windows 8 instead of the “Start Screen” (The screen that looks like it belongs on a smart phone.).<\/p>\n
Yesterday, it appears the rest of the world caught up with us. It was widely reported that next major upgrade to Windows 8 would included a start button and a user option to boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop and thus allow users to avoid the Start Screen altogether.<\/p>\n
TC thinks this is great news for all of you who use a mouse and keyboard. EB thinks the Start Screen is great. Whether you agree with TC or EB, it looks very much like the next major upgrade to Windows 8 will finally give you a choice.<\/p>\n
In the meantime EB has convinced me that the best way to add a Windows 7-like start button to Windows 8 is by installing “Classic Shell” . Classic Shell is freeware and is available, free, fromhttp:\/\/www.classicshell.net\/<\/a>\u00a0 . It’s not often EB convinces TC of anything. You’d have to know TC to know why \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several months ago we were one of the first newsletters to report that Microsoft would add a start button and a user option to boot to the desktop in Windows 8 instead of the “Start Screen” (The screen that looks like it belongs on a smart phone.). Yesterday, it appears the rest of the world caught up with\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5633,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions\/5633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}