Microsoft will continue to improve Windows 8’s Start Screen

Mar 25, 2013 11:11 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft’s new Windows Blue, the first important makeover for the current Windows 8 operating system, will pack several enhancements, some of which are implemented to provide users with more customization power.

We’ve received lots of questions from our users regarding a potential Start button in Windows Blue and, even though many of you are actually hoping to see such a feature go live this summer, this isn’t going to happen.

As we can see in the leaked build of Windows Blue, Microsoft will continue to focus on the existing Start Screen rolled out with Windows 8, so the upcoming upgrade will instead introduce several new customization options.

The Start Screen will allow smaller and larger tiles, as well as new colors and more background settings. In addition, it could support new gestures when used on touchscreen computers, so users would be allowed to swipe up and down to browse the installed apps.

As far as users are concerned, a third-party Start button is their only hope, as Windows Blue does nothing more than to reiterate Steve Ballmer’s statements that Microsoft has no intention to abandon the Start Screen.