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Microsoft today is confirming new design and interfaces changes to Windows 8.1, codenamed Windows Blue, today - changes that include the return of the missing Start menu button.
(See also Microsoft Is Backing Down From One Of Windows 8's Boldest Changes (http://readwrite.com/2013/05/29/microsoft-windows-8-start-button).)It isn't known if this design change (one among many highlighted in today's entry on the official Windows blog (http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/05/30/continuing-the-windows-8-vision-with-windows-8-1.aspx)) will be enough to turn around the at-best ambivalence users have shown towards Windows 8 and its Metro interface, but it's a Start.
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