If you are one of those early adopters of Windows 8, I am sure you have heard the missing Start button story. Here I am after several months of using Windows and finding live simpler using one of the third part Start button utilities and life is just going on.

But I am not the only one. Betanews is reporting that almost one third of users may have installed Windows 8 Start button. If one third of 60 million Windows 8 users are using an alternative Start Button, why don't Microsoft just provide it? Put a patch and let us have it.

You can add start menu / button to Windows 8 using one of several third party tools. While some users are installing these third party utilities, some are trying to create their own Windows 8 Start menu.

I hope Microsoft is watching this trend.