Microsoft unveils a new "human-centric" Start Menu redesign for Windows 11

[alexnode]

People still use the start menu? What do they actually use it for? I have everything I need pinned to the taskbar. And if I don't I just type in the first few letters of the app I'm looking for and go. I have a simple shortcut to a log-off script on the taskbar too so I don't have to go through MS's 9327434 clicks and ads to log off.

I do the same, but because the start bar is really useless. All this AI money and still we have to put manually the software we use.

 

[CapNemo72]

So they had all Spartans helping them with refreshing the Menu that needs to get simpler, not need to honor any kind of icon, just do its job off having the list of software you have.
Its ironic, it it does not look Spartan at all.

Is that so hard?

If someone needs weather or news, they can install widget, and there you go. Why stress people that do not want this and have to go through many clicks to remove it?

But I guess, if you are in that UX design tea, you want to make a case that your job is meaningful and that all of them are needed there. So you do not meaningful things . . .

 

[EvilRebar]

On Linux you chose your desktop environment. There are for all tastes, from ultra lightweight keyboard driven to crazy effects. Freedom changes the experience and doesn't turn the user into a passive, hands-tied recipient.

The downside of this is that you're using Linux, and that you're researching and learning different desktop environments. Before trying to find application analogs, port your data, and get everything working.

Linux desktop proponents don't get that most people treat their OS like a toaster not some sort of cherished hobby to tinker with for fun.

 

[Anton Longshot]

As a (very) long time Windows user I've PAID for my OS several times. Now Microsoft scr3ws users over by releasing a version that's a literal AD PLATFORM in an attempt to lay their grubby hands on MORE money.
And they'll undoubtedly repeat this scheme next time, and perhaps break all current tweaks and fixes
Unless they turn back this particular ugly clock they have lost me.
I no longer trust them and don't want to do business with such a traiterous company.
Sad because Microsoft's past work is largely responsible for my love of computing and I'll sorely miss Windows and my favorite apps. But nothing lasts forever and I'll no doubt find satisfactory replacements soon.

 

[mgwerner]

"This is the final revision of the new Windows 11 Start menu:"

Right. Pull the other one.

 

[TechMonger]

Either nobody noticed or just didn't find such details important: They show a Skype icon to advertise a future start menu. Does Microsoft not know that Microsoft killed Skype (that is, put it out of its misery thank you) which was surely planned some time ago.

 

[amghwk]

Don't know why Microsoft needed to screw up the original Windows 95 Start menu. Or at the most, Windows XP menu was more than enough, which was polished in 7. After 7, everything went downhill.

 

[enonymous]

People still use the start menu? What do they actually use it for? I have everything I need pinned to the taskbar. And if I don't I just type in the first few letters of the app I'm looking for and go. I have a simple shortcut to a log-off script on the taskbar too so I don't have to go through MS's 9327434 clicks and ads to log off.

I have a handful of applications I don't use often. So infrequently that I don't remember the name.

Back before they ruined the start menu, I'd simply go look under "audio" or "video" or wherever I put it. In fact, I could do it with the keyboard and quickly organize it because the start menu was just a folder.

I skipped windows 8 and just never tried organizing the windows 10 menu. The once per 8 months when I want to use screen2gif; that's when I'm annoyed at microsoft trying to put a mobile "app launcher" on a desktop os.

 

[yannus]

The downside of this is that you're using Linux, and that you're researching and learning different desktop environments. Before trying to find application analogs, port your data, and get everything working.

Linux desktop proponents don't get that most people treat their OS like a toaster not some sort of cherished hobby to tinker with for fun.

It's not like this anymore. Installing and using distros like MXlinux or Mint are much easier and faster than windows. Depending on people's expectations of course, but for a general use, these distros work amazingly. My kids use it all the time and say that windows is harder to use. When you try to find your way out of notifications, you know you 've reached the bottom.

But Linux choice is more of a long term one. It's the decision to be in charge of the tech side of your life and not being held as a hostage by micro$oft forever.

 

[bitwarden]

Windows 9 has the best menu