Not very surprising to me. I bet someone decided a little bit of UI flair on the Start Menu could be tried out and threw in a quick change to add the transparency. I bet it's something someone ...

As you can see, Microsoft used a somewhat traditional layout on the left side of the menu, and then a tile-based section reminiscent of Windows 8’s Start screen can be found on the right. Don’t be ...

Most every longtime Windows user knows the sad saga of the lowly Start menu. Born as a button in Windows 95, modified in XP and Vista, and blossoming into its most usable form in Windows 7, the Start ...

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In the past few years, the Windows Start menu has been dangled in front of us and taken away more times than we can count, but it’s finally back—and it’s brought a lot of new tricks. For the first ...