The new Windows 11 Start Menu addresses a string of user complaints by simplifying app access, reducing clutter, and ...

The Start menu is an essential part of the Windows experience, but it's not always the most efficient and customizable. To counter this, Microsoft introduced a sleek and modernized Start menu in ...

The Windows Start menu is getting its first major redesign since 2021 and will be rolled out to everyone with the November 11 Patch Tuesday update. The Start menu is now scrollable, so you can move ...

The updated Start menu is larger, more customizable, and has two new views. The updated Start menu is larger, more customizable, and has two new views. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...

The new Windows 11 Start menu is now rolling out to all users. The menu brings a more flexible layout to the Apps section. Don't like it? You can still turn to a Start menu replacement. The Windows 11 ...

The latest Windows 11 Insider update tries to improve the Start menu. The menu shows all apps on the main page and a screen for your phone. The update also enhances File Explorer with a recommended ...

Editor's take: Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft has repeatedly mangled the tried-and-tested Start Menu paradigm – achieving absolutely nothing useful each time. Now, the AI and cloud corporation is ...

Windows 11 has become so synonymous with Microsoft’s push into generative AI that it’s easy to forget that it originally launched as a mostly cosmetic overhaul of Windows 10. But Microsoft continues ...

Microsoft experimented with a lot of concept designs for its new Start menu in Windows 11. Microsoft experimented with a lot of concept designs for its new Start menu in Windows 11. is a senior editor ...

Microsoft has announced an update to Windows 11 that allows iPhone users to access their devices directly from the Start menu, bringing feature parity with its existing Android phone integration. The ...

With Windows 11’s November 2025 Update (update KB5068861), Microsoft fixed some bugs but also introduced some new issues. The biggest news item, however, was the introduction of a completely new and ...

Microsoft put a lot of focus on Windows 11’s design when it released the operating system in 2021, making a clean break with the design language of Windows 10 (which had, itself, simply tweaked and ...