{"id":661055,"date":"2013-05-30T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=631449"},"modified":"2013-05-30T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:30:10","slug":"heres-how-microsoft-hopes-to-reignite-interest-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661055","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how Microsoft hopes to reignite interest in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/30\/windows-8-1-preview-start-button\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/windows-8-1-start-menu.png?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8.1 Preview Start Button\" title=\"Windows 8.1 Preview Start Button\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>As we learned on Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> will indeed be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/29\/windows-8-1-leaked-screenshot-start-button\/\">bringing back the Start button for Windows 8.1<\/a>. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/05\/30\/microsoft-windows-8-1-unveiled\/\"><em>Engadget<\/em>, which has posted a lengthy preview of Windows 8.1<\/a>, says that the Start button may not quite be what many users were expecting. According to the site, the new Start button isn&#8217;t &#8220;a return to fly-out menu trees&#8221; of older versions of Windows but instead makes it look &#8220;more like the Live Tiles are popping up on top of the desktop&#8221; when you click it. While this is sure to disappoint some users who were hoping for a Windows 7-type experience, Microsoft is hoping that it will make for an easier transition between the classic desktop view and the touch-centric Live Tile view on the Metro display.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/30\/windows-8-1-preview-start-button\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/2jBc5rZRRLo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we learned on Wednesday, Microsoft will indeed be bringing back the Start button for Windows 8.1. But Engadget, which has posted a lengthy preview of Windows 8.1, says that the Start button may not quite be what many users were expecting. According to the site, the new Start button isn&#8217;t &#8220;a return to fly-out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}