Open Source Will Not Let You Miss Windows 8 Start Button

You won’t have to miss out on the Start button in Windows 8. Guess who will come to your rescue - an open source application named Classic Shell, which can deal with the Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM).

According to a Register report, El Reg's antipodean lab installed Classic Shell on a Windows 8 RTM virtual machine running under Oracle VirtualBox on Mac OS 10.7.4. We can report that the application installed without a hint of trouble, and as soon as we clicked in its shell-like Start button we were offered a nice set of options to arranged Windows 8 so that it resembled versions of Windows past.
This application even gives you an option to access Windows 8 without having to seek TIFKAM screen. It also disables the “active corners” features that invoke the tiled interface.
While the authors are still not completely sure whether Classic Shell will actually work well with Windows 8. The FAQ of the app clearly indicates that it has not been formally tested under the RTM version that was made available for download last week.