This is how the start button could work in Windows 8.1

Although many of you don't seem to miss it, everything indicates that with Windows 8.1 we will have back the typical Windows start button That yes, it will not be a classic start menu like that of previous versions of the Microsoft operating system. Mary Jo Foley has consulted the normally trusted sources of hers to try to shed some light on the situation and help understand how this new button would work in the upcoming Windows 8 Blue Update.

The new start button will be located in its usual place, on the far left of our taskbar, and will look like the middle button that we can see when we pull down the Charms bar in Windows 8.It will come enabled by default, but those who have so far been content with its absence will have no problem removing it from their desktop bar.

As you would expect, in Modern UI mode the button will not be visible, but it will appear as soon as you move the cursor to the bottom corner left of the screen. The icon of the new button will thus replace the preview of the open applications that currently appears in Windows 8 when we perform this action with our mouse.

By clicking on it, we will access a full screen list of applications with the same style that we already find in the current view accessible from the bottom bar of the home screen. The icons replace the tiles and we will have the possibility of rearranging them according to our use, so that we have the most common applications in the first place.

Along with the start button, the latest private test version of Windows 8.1 would also introduce for the first time the option to start directly to the desktop , which would be disabled by default. The same would happen with a third novelty that will allow us to use the same wallpaper on the desktop and on the home screen, allowing a less abrupt transition between the two modes.

Paul Thurrott was quick to confirm this information The well-known Windows blogger, who claims to have had access to the latest Milestone Preview ( MP) of Windows 8.1, claims that the start button is indeed there, but at the moment it does not include the option to disable it as explained by Mary Jo Foley. To clear up doubts and see all these new features in operation we will have to wait until the end of June, when a public preview of Windows 8.1 will be released.

Via | ZDNet