“Nobody killed anything,” he said, via an exchange though his Facebook page. Nevertheless, the developer of Classic Shell said that his product was as viable as ever. Stardock Stardock’s Start8 offers shutdown options from the desktop. (Classic Shell’s version 3.6.8, released in June and compatible with Windows 8.1, was asked to remove its version of the Windows flag, which it calls the “Metro button”, at the behest of Microsoft.) For its part, Start8 also offers an option to shut down from the desktop, which is now in Windows 8.1 as well. But all three also offer the traditional Start menu, with Classic Shell offering either a “classic” menu, or one in the style of either Windows XP or Windows 7. Start8, Classic Shell, and StartMenu8 all boot directly to the desktop, meaning that piece of the puzzle, at least, is duplicated by Microsoft. Some of the functionality that the third-party applications added for Windows 8 users, however, now overlaps with some of what Microsoft has added for the upcoming Windows 8.1.
Microsoft, for its part, has said that Windows 8.1 represents a “heck of a lot of movement, a heck of a lot of innovation, and a heck of a lot of responsiveness, all coming to market in a very very rapid timeframe,” in the words of Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer during the company’s Build 2013 conference in June. Third-party apps now overlap with Windows 8.1 “Customers looking for the functionality of the classic start menu to help them navigate Windows 8 in a way that has been familiar to them for years will still find Start8 from Stardock enables that capability seamlessly.” “The start button shortcut to the start screen that Microsoft is providing with Windows 8.1 does not replace the start menu in the eyes of our growing customer base,” Robert McElroy, the marketing and sales manager at Stardock Corp., said in an email.
PCWorld has a guide to installing the preview, a peek at its hidden features, and a tour of its new and updated apps.) (Microsoft released a preview of Windows 8.1 last month at its Build 2013 conference. Users upset by the jarringly different Start page had no refuge from it other than third-party alternatives. In many ways, Windows 8 is just Windows 7 with a tablet interface layered on top of it, but-sorry!-no Start button. These products fill a need: to ease the transition to Windows 8 and its unfamiliar Start page. Stardock “Classic” Start menus provide an alternative to the Windows 8.1 Start button.
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