With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

If the Start Menu does not open or Start Button is not working, or is broke in Windows 11/10, then here are a few troubleshooting steps you may want to try.

While sources have emphasized that the Start Button won't work the way the current Windows Start Button does -- by opening up a Start Menu -- that's about all we've heard.

The point is, even with the addition of the Start Button if you don’t like the direction Windows is going in Windows 8, Windows 8.1 won’t do anything to abate that.

Could Microsoft phase out the Start button in Windows 12 and replace it with Copilot? Listen to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and it seems like a very real possibility.