Windows 8.1 is getting some upgrades really soon, but Microsoft also announced a future upgrade to Windows 8 that everyone's been asking for: the return of the desktop Start menu.


As if you haven't already replaced the Start menu on your own, Microsoft says they'll be bringing back the Start menu in a future update. It looks similar to the old one, but with a small tiled interface tacked on the side, which is actually pretty cool. Microsoft will also let tiled "Modern" apps run in a window on the desktop (which you can currently do with ModernMix). Better late than never, perhaps, but if you aren't doing this already with apps like Start8 and ModernMix, it's a nice upgrade we suppose.