Lenovo now installing old-fashioned Start menus on Windows 8 PCs

Although Microsoft is indeed bringing back a version of the Start button with its upcoming Windows 8.1 update, it’s still not bringing back the full Start menu that’s long been a staple of the Windows experience. Lenovo, however, is aiming to fix this by bringing the Start menu back on its own. Bloomberg reports that Lenovo plans to “pre-install SweetLabs’ Pokki software, which provides a replacement for the dearly departed Windows Start menu” on new Windows 8 PCs that it will start shipping in the coming weeks.

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This is particularly interesting because Lenovo has been the one OEM that has done reasonably well at selling Windows PCs this year and is now the No. 1 PC vendor in the world. If Lenovo successfully uses the restored Start menu as a marketing tool for its new PCs, it might push other companies such as HP and Asus to find third-party Start menus of their own to pre-load onto their computers.

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