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will Microsoft make a windows 8 wish come true I'm Bridget Carey and this is your sunat update the start menu could be returning to Windows a report from windows journalist Paul Thurrott suggests that Microsoft will bring back the start menu in the next update to Windows and it might also let Metro tile apps run on the desktop version which means windows can go back to being a little more windows II but if true it'll be several months before we see a Windows 8.1 update some reports say it may not happen till 2015 Google doesn't need special street view camera cars to update its Maps it can use your photos Google is leading you upload your own street view panorama photos to create your own tour of an area to do so you'll need to use an android phone to make a photo sphere it's a 360 degree panorama photo and from the photo gallery you can tap share to add it to maps and it'll be geotagged this can also be done with photos taken with a digital SLR camera it'll it Google expand Street View to hard-to-reach places like ancient castles or hiking trails Google's chromecast has been updated to work with 10 new apps this $35 streaming media hdmi TV stick just became a little cooler it added a few more video apps like vivo and revision 3 it also works with the free music app Songza which I highly recommend if you haven't already tried it out you can also stream your personal video collection using the apps Plex and realplayer cloud if you have an iphone ipad or ipod touch apple is giving you gifts the day after Christmas you see there's a new API have to download it's called 12 days of gifts and starting on December 26th Apple will use the app to give away one free download every day it could be a game a song a movie anything from itunes or the App Store but it's just one free thing a day until January sixth the 12 days of gifts was offered before to Canada and Europe but this is the first year that US customers are getting the freebies and if you can't wait that long for a holiday treat check out an update to the popular game Temple Run 2 in it you can play a Santa Claus the Christmas theme comes as an update for iOS and Android but you need to have earned 60 gems to unlock Saint Nick or if you rather not wait you can just pay a few dollars to unlock it right away that's your tech news update but you can find more details always at cnet com / update and you can keep up with the latest stories by following me on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey