A preview of Windows 11, expected to be the next version of the operating software, reportedly leaked, featuring details such as updates to the Start button, a new startup sound and a centered menu.

Click here to subscribe for free.) This week marked the silver jubilee year of Windows 95 – the OS version which introduced the iconic “Start” button. Microsoft Windows continues to be a ...

Stardock has released Start11 version 1.0, a program that allows users to customize the Windows Start menu and taskbar, today. As with previous editions of StartX products, Start11 allows users to ...

A company known for software that customizes Windows has released a free tool that restores the Start button to Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview. StarDock, notable for its WindowBlinds ...

Editor’s note: Ahead of Microsoft’s 50th’s anniversary, we’ve fixed the layout on this story — which we originally published in 2012 when Windows 8 launched. Now’s a good time to ...

Stardock Software’s Start11 utility is shipping today as a 1.0 release, and if you hate the reductionist new design of the Windows 11 Start menu ... you to click a button to manually restart ...

but Bill Gates saw a demonstration of IBM’s Visi On at Comdex in 1982 and tore up the playbook to start development on Windows. In 1983, Microsoft got wind of Apple’s windowing system ...

It was so bad that Microsoft had to patch in the original taskbar and Start button with Windows 8.1, which helped things to some extent, but it was too late. With the original release, Microsoft ...

And play Reversi, pictured above! The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings 'We coded day ...