No Microsoft Start Menu for Windows 8 until 2015: Sources

Microsoft won't be delivering a new Start Menu for Windows 8 with its coming Windows 8.1 Update 2, after all.

That recent change in plans comes courtesy of a couple of my sources who've had good track records on Windows information.

Up until recently, Microsoft was hoping to make a new "Mini" Start Menu part of a second update to Windows 8.1. 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. I'm not clear whether the postponement is because the feature won't be fully baked in time, or if there's another reason for the change in plans.

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[pparks1]

Modern open plan offices are a TOTAL abomination - especially in these days of total lack of consideration for other people when using mobile phones. Something about a Mobile phone just seems to switch off any idea of manners or consideration for others -- I'm sure you knoiw what I mean -- loud ring tones, annoying email notification beeps every few seconds, click noises when texting and when answering / making calls using voices so loud that even an old Drill Sgt in the Army would be proud of.

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jimbo

Hehe, you'd love to hear me clacking away on my mechanical keyboard. Clickety, clickety, clickety, clack, clack, clack, click.

 

[BlueMasterFX]

Yawn... can't we put this topic to bed?

I've had a start menu since Windows 8 because I got Start8 for a discount. So yeah I don't think we need to worry about the start menus. Honestly I think I'm not even excited for Microsoft nor Windows 9 anymore. OS X Yosemite wins in my book. My iPhone in one room and I can text people who have Android or make calls directly on my Mac sealed the deal for me. A dream come true!

I only dualboot Windows for games or if I'm forced to run a native Windows application. Okay I'm done.