Why do console game require pressing START button to go through a redundant splash screen?
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Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system.
We pushed the start button and felt the foreboding rumble of the W-12 engine beneath us.
Double click start button, you get a button that when clicked will let you take a photo.
Back on the old desktop view, the most visible change is that the Start button is gone.
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Note: the Comfort Mouse's Start button is located on the left, meaning it was clearly designed for righties.
There has been significant backlash over the lack of a Start button, and other elements of Windows 8.
Brings back the Start Button and Start Menu with more functionality and customizability.
As you probably know, there's no Start button, and the Start Menu is comprised of Windows Phone-esque Live Tiles.
Mercifully, you sometimes have to hit a start button to play the video, and, of course, turn your audio on.
With Windows 8, Microsoft made many radical changes, not the least of which being the deletion of the fabled Start button.
Navigation: The green Start button always brings you back to the Start menu from any location in your Portable Media Center.
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This reading had warned me about a supposed huge flaw in Windows 8, which was that the START button had been eliminated.
Push the backlit engine-start button and the dashboard air vents automatically rotate open while the rotary shift knob rises up from the center console.
In some cases, the update even changes the way you interact with the OS. Yes, that means the Start button is back (sort of).
That Start button, by the way, delivers some strong, reassuring haptic feedback -- stronger than on some other Windows 8 tablets, that's for sure.
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Removing the Start button in Windows 8 is Microsoft's first misjudgment.
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There are other off-putting details too: if you press the Start button on the lower bezel while the screen is propped up, the entire display moves.
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The device was also quick to launch apps, as well as close out of them abruptly if ever we changed our mind and hit the Start button.
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Thanks to the 'My Media' quick-start button on the NeoTV PRIME remote control, you easily access the media player app with the mere push of a button.
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The start button sits in the middle of the drive buttons and works only when a smooth rectangle key fob is inserted fully into the slot and held down.
From the beginning of Microsoft's mobile efforts in the PDA era, its touchscreen phone software has had a Start button and windows that could be minimized like the classic Windows desktop.
The ScanJet comes with good documentation (including a first-rate multimedia tour), and sports a handy start button that you can customize to launch the software you want to use when scanning.
When you press the GT-R's Start button, pumps and lubrication circuits come noisily to life, the forged crank twirls and the aluminum pistons of the 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 pick up the rhythm.
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Though it sacrifices genuine leather in favor of a rubber coating, its contours and features are similar, down to the Engine Start button (here, a d-pad) and the turn signals (replaced with face buttons).
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When we first reported on Start8, a mod that brings the tried-and-tested Start button back to Windows 8, it was impossible to know how fiercely the fires of controversy would burn over Microsoft's new interface.
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