Windows 8 Start menu resurrection delayed until next version of Windows in 2015

[unixman_again]

"It isn’t clear why Microsoft is holding back the Start menu, but my guess is that it would make for a nice (if ironic) “killer” feature to get people to upgrade to Threshold/Windows 9." ExtremeTech

[edutech4schools]

No reason other than money seeing as you can download free ones right now.