I am a MSDN subscriber and after applying the Windows 8.1 Update (release April 2nd to MSDN) the Start Menu is not showing up as described in the Key Note.

Is anyone else having this issue?  Its as if the updates were never applied.

Thanks

Please tell us what happens when you press the Windows key on your keyboard.

What they showed during the Build keynote was a preview of a future Windows version. Windows 8.1 does not come with a start menu.

• Proposed as answer by Jason WarrenMVP 11 hours 24 minutes ago

In Windows 8.1 they added a simple start menu.  If you right click on the start menu icon it will show up, where if you left click, you will be taken to the tiled start menu.  The left click menu wasn't there in Win8.

Is this what you are looking for?

• Proposed as answer by Professor Hindsight 9 hours 13 minutes ago

Apparently not.  The OP is referring to something he heard mentioned at the recent Microsoft Build Developer Conference that he thinks is included in the new Update to Windows 8.1 but is not.

What they showed during the Build keynote was a preview of a future Windows version. Windows 8.1 does not come with a start menu.

• Proposed as answer by Jason WarrenMVP Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:30 PM

In Windows 8.1 they added a simple start menu.  If you right click on the start menu icon it will show up, where if you left click, you will be taken to the tiled start menu.  The left click menu wasn't there in Win8.

Is this what you are looking for?

• Proposed as answer by Professor Hindsight Monday, April 07, 2014 1:42 AM

Hi,

Would you please help to provide more detailed description of your concern?

I suppose that once the computer restart, the desktop show up instead of Start screen by default.

One settings can change this behavior which is newly added in Windows 8.1 update 1: Show store app in taskbar