{"id":741286,"date":"2013-03-11T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=368037"},"modified":"2013-03-11T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T13:35:10","slug":"lack-of-start-button-still-said-to-haunt-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741286","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Start button still said to haunt Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/windows-8-criticism-start-button-368037\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/microsoft-windows-8-surface.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=434&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C434\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 Criticism\" title=\"Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Surface\" \/><\/a><\/center>Windows 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/samsung-executive-windows-8-criticism-364626\/\">has taken its share of lumps over the past few months<\/a>, but one analyst thinks its troubles all began with <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) decision to omit the Start button from its user interface. In <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-10805_3-57573370-75\/four-months-in-windows-8-needs-help\/\">an interview with <em>CNET<\/em><\/a>, IDC analyst Bob\u00a0O'Donnell says that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/06\/29\/windows-8-start-button-removal\/\">not having a Start button<\/a> is a big turnoff to many users who have spent years working with Windows and who have come to expect it as a central feature of any Windows device.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/windows-8-criticism-start-button-368037\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/q_y2FPQt4wU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 has taken its share of lumps over the past few months, but one analyst thinks its troubles all began with Microsoft&#8217;s (MSFT) decision to omit the Start button from its user interface. In an interview with CNET, IDC analyst Bob\u00a0O&#8217;Donnell says that not having a Start button is a big turnoff to many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Qe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}