Microsoft might be confident that its forthcoming Windows 8.1 updates will be enough to satisfy the legions of critics who’ve made a hobby out of bashing its latest OS, it seems that the world’s ...

Today Pokki announced that it has racked up an impressive 500,000 downloads of its product for Windows 8 in the first six weeks of its life. Pokki, providers of an application store for the Windows ...

Open up the Windows 8 desktop mode and you'll notice a major change: The Start menu is gone. Without the familiar button at the lower left corner, many veteran Windows desktop users are lost in ...

Lenovo, the world’s largest computer maker, announced today that its Windows 8 PCs will come bundled with the Pokki Start button and menu replacement, along with its desktop mode-oriented app store.

While Microsoft may have thought that it had overcome the negative reactions that accompanied Windows 8, the world’s top PC manufacturer isn’t necessarily convinced. Lenovo said Thursday that it will ...

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If you’ve used Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system, chances are the first thing you thought when you got the OS main screen was, “Dude where’s the Start button?!” And quite possibly, you ...

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After securing Acer as its first major OEM deal, Pokki, an alternative Windows application marketplace and Start Button replacement, today secured Lenovo as its newest partner. The deal will see Pokki ...

Because Microsoft thinks it knows what’s best for users and apparently wants to confuse the living daylights out of them, Windows 8 has no Start button. I’ll just say that again so it sinks in: ...

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The world's number one PC manufacturer Lenovo has announced that a replacement Start button for Windows 8 will be installed on many of its devices, beginning in the next few weeks. Windows 8 has ...