Windows 10 has a Start menu like Windows 7. However, if Windows 10 is switched to Tablet mode, it resembles the Start screen in Windows 8. Windows 8 booted directly into a Start screen, which was ...

The original version of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system did something no one ever thought Microsoft would do. With it Microsoft stripped away the Start Menu that’d dominated older versions of ...

The main draw and most heavily advertised aspect of Windows Phone 8 is the homescreen – or Start screen, as Microsoft calls it. According to its celebrity-stuffed advertising, WP8 is able to suit the ...

Windows 8.1 users can easily move and resize tiles, create and name groups of tiles, change the background image, and pin freshly installed apps on the Start screen. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

When Windows 8 first debuted, the operating system received a ton of criticism for the things it did. Complaints included the replacement of the Start Menu with the Start Screen and a new design that ...

Microsoft has been tweaking the Start menu and Start screen in Windows 10 since it started building the new OS. How do you switch between and customize both in Windows 10? Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

We got a chance to sit down with Microsoft’s Greg Sullivan to take a look at the updated Start Screen experience on a very early build of Windows Phone 7.8. We got a chance to sit down with ...

Windows 8's Start Screen gets a bad rap, but with the right tweaks and a couple downloads, it can actually be pretty useful. Here's how to make the Start Screen into something you might actually want ...

On September 13, I will have been using Windows 8 as my main operating system for exactly one year. I have used Windows 8 to play games (Diablo 3, Civ 5, DOTA 2), edit photos and videos (Audacity, ...

If you are looking for a way to pin your favorite website’s shortcut or tile to the Windows 8.1 Start Screen, this post will show you how to do it for Internet Explorer 11. Things were easier on ...

The new start screen in Microsoft Office 2013 launches every time you open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, prompting you to choose a template or create a black document, spreadsheet, or presentation to ...