Report: Microsoft shoveling more dirt onto Windows 8.1 with 'Threshold'

Depending on how you see it, Microsoft is either offering Windows users more of a choice between the traditional desktop and its tiled Start Menu interface—or simply burying it altogether.

In a report released Monday—together with overlapping details from The Verge and Neowin—Microsoft appears to be making the traditional desktop the default interface for “Threshold,” the code name for the next major release of Windows due sometime next year. All About Microsoft’s Mary Jo Foley reports that Windows will start up differently according to the hardware it runs on: the tiled Start Page interface for tablets, and the desktop—along with a compact, tile-base Start Menu—on mobile devices like tablets.

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