Microsoft launches the rest with Windows 11 in 2025. Unsurprisingly, the company needs a massive migration of Windows 10 users before the end of system support; To do this, he uses somewhat aggressive tactics, but Windows 11 also improves with many updates.
Although it is true that all Windows 11 updates are not well received, we cannot deny that at least Microsoft does not sleep in laurels and works to improve the system. Now we have another good example of how Microsoft changes Windows 11, although it is a change for better or for worse, it is something questionable.
More specifically, we are talking about New Windows 11 start menuwhich is already in development and has been discovered by means such as Windows last And users like Phantomofearth. Recall that Windows 11 has already published a new type of start menu, clearly inspired by the Android Applications menu.
When we click the icon, an anchored or recent applications is displayed, in addition to the latest open files and Microsoft suggestions. If we want to see the traditional list of programs, as in the previous versions of Windows, we must click on the “All” button.
The new start menu completely changes this philosophy, betting on Show everything on a single page. Instead of having to click on “all” to see our programs, they will now appear in the lower half of the start menu, while the upper part will continue to be reserved for anchored applications. The grace is that Windows 11 will display the applications ordered in category drawers, so that it is faster and easier to find the program we want to use.
New start menu, followed: here is what the companions look like, phone link used for demo. The Companion panel is a little wider, and you can now mask / display the companions quickly with a button at the top, next to the search area. pic.twitter.com/hms7e56kiu
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Consequently, instead of simply showing a list of applications in alphabetical order, drawers dedicated to productivity, creativity, tools, entertainment, information, social networks and games; The applications that Windows 11 do not recognize appear in “others”, and it is not clear if the user can assign the application to concrete categories.
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The new organization assumes that the start -up menu will occupy more space, but the thing is not there. Remember that Microsoft also works to add our mobile to the starting menu in Own section, called “companion”. In this addition to the menu, we can see information from our smartphone, such as the state of the battery, in addition to direct access to functions such as calls, messages and photographs; By clicking on each access, the mobile link application will be open.
All this means that with all open options, The start menu now occupies almost the whole screenLeaving only a small space on both sides on a conventional instructor. This is where the first criticisms concentrated, especially users who remember Windows 8 and their attempt to convert the start menu in the full screen.
