Sentence examples for familiar start from inspiring English sources

Now, Microsoft breezily says, "the familiar Start menu is back", as though it had been on holiday rather than unceremoniously dumped.

Both men seem to be imitating Mr. Lane and Mr. Broderick, rather than interpreting their characters directly, and the show gets off to a slow but familiar start.

Though she didn't explain it, business customers are buying Windows 8 licences but actually install the older Windows 7 – with its familiar start button.

The Manning Equation To the Sports Editor: Re: "Familiar Start, With Another Ugly Ending," Oct. 11: It has become apparent that the conservation of Manning mojo must be a fundamental law of football.

But the bet proved so ill-judged that an app which lets users reintroduce the familiar start button is now one of the bestsellers for Windows 8.What does Microsoft's U-turn mean?

With its touch-based approach, Windows 8's radical interface using "Live Tiles" instead of the familiar "Start Menu" alienated users by requiring them to change their way of working too drastically.

In many ways, Baltimore Technologies P.L.C. is a familiar start-up success story: an innovative product, aggressive expansion and rapid growth in revenue though never a profit, a Nasdaq listing and the No. 2 spot in a lucrative niche market.

Although users will be able to revert to the familiar Start-based interface, Microsoft is aiming at the new system as its way of combating the threat from tablets made by Apple and other companies incorporating Google's Android system, as well as RIM's PlayBook and HP's forthcoming WebOS tablets.

"All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating," he recalled.

He will find much that is familiar, starting with his new team-mate Mario Andretti.

With a familiar starting XI assembled for his debut as England manager, Sam Allardyce hopes a change of system will improve the team's fortunes.