Microsoft shows the concept of a new Start menu for Windows 10
Microsoft shows a concept of how the Windows 10 Start menu could become in the future. Space for static icons to the detriment of Live Tiles – which will continue to exist – and greater color uniformity.
Microsoft is working on a new design for the Windows 10 Start menu without Live Tile. To confirm the change was Brandon LeBlanc, senior program manager of the Windows Insider team, during a podcast. The concept shown can be seen as a current state of play, designed to ” visually differentiate the Start menu from something chaotic in terms of color to something more uniform. ”
Microsoft’s goal is to simplify the menu and make it easier to find apps by attenuating the colors of the tiles, i.e., the blocks that Microsoft has introduced in the mobile field with Windows Phone 7 and then exported to the desktop. The tiles in and of themselves, as well as the Live Tiles, i.e., their dynamic implementation, do not seem to disappear completely, at least not initially.
Although Microsoft is working on a Windows 10X menu – SO for new-generation dual-screen products and more – without Live Tile, the traditional operating system is not yet ready to follow in the footsteps of the newcomer. ” The Live Tiles aren’t leaving, we haven’t announced anything like that, ” explained Brandon LeBlanc. ” Those who love their Live Tiles will continue to be able to do it.”
Reassuring claims aside, it appears that Live Tile will completely drop out of the future. To make it believable, it is the design direction taken by Microsoft (Fluent Design), with new icons that do not adapt well to the previous concept, and the fact that not all Microsoft apps integrated with Windows 10 support them. Not even third party developers have made great use of it.
Sources of The Verge inside the Redmond house say that ” a final decision on Live Tile in Windows 10 has not yet been made despite the rumors, and that the feedback linked to the modification of Windows 10X will determine their future “.
Microsoft has not been exposed at the moment regarding the arrival times of the new Start menu. Still, with Windows 10 20H1 completed, it will probably be necessary to wait for 2021 and, more precisely, Windows 10 21H1, both according to previous rumors and based on the latest system feature updates operational, with the second update of the year less dense than the first.
