Microsoft: Start button killed because of low usage

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/29/2012 10:58 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Microsoft's decision to get rid of the Start button in Windows 8 is one of the more controversial changes in the new operating system, but according to the software giant they decided to go through with this change because people have stopped using it:

"We

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