- Microsoft has revealed new changes for normal Windows 11 devices, along with all the revelations that have just been made on co -pilot+ PCs
- This includes a great movement with redesign the start menu that was previously leaked in the tests
- Hopefully the choice to leave the recommendations section of the start menu, as seen in that leak, will remain in
Microsoft has confirmed that an important redesign of the Windows 11 start menu is approaching, along with some other useful adjustments.
In case it has been lost, there has only been a great revelation over all incoming candy treats, including an AI agent integrated into the configuration application, to solve the changes for you, but there were also revelations with respect to the Normal Windows 11 PCs (you know, the type that almost all still use).
The renovated start menu is not a surprise, since a filter previously discovered the hidden work in test compilations. However, with Microsoft now revealing it officially, we know it will be live and will be tested on Windows 11 Preview Builds soon.
The idea is to take the start menu and turn it into a single movable panel, with applications set at the top, recommendations below and the complete list of applications installed on your PC below that at the bottom. The current design has that complete list of applications divided into a separate panel (which changes with a button click).
Consolidating all this in a section makes sense to me, and the menu will be broader to help accommodate the additional content.
In addition to this, Microsoft has been doing some rays with the design options for the complete list of applications to allow them to better adapt to the available space. That is already underway in the tests, which allows you to organize the list of applications in a more compact way using categories as an option.
Microsoft points out that: “The new category of all applications is automatically seen depending on the applications and categories that you use the most, so that you can quickly access all your favorites.”
In addition to the work on the start menu, Microsoft is also presenting AI actions at File Explorer. This means that when you work with File Explorer, the folders on your desktop, you will get AI -related actions in the right click menu. So, for example, an image file could have a capacity for the application photos such as a shortcut.
This is essentially a vanilla version of ‘click to do’, which is the most deep context functionality system incorporated with co -cilot+ PCs (which have some additional abilities, of course, and that number is slowly increasing as we have seen).
The application of Windows 11 notes is also being reinforced, with characteristics that allow generating text or summarizing an article. Some more format options are also arriving in the form of headings and support for lists, in addition to bold and cursive.
It seems that they have been written thanks to the disappearance of Wordpad, with the notes slowly obtaining more aggregate characteristics to offer a viable alternative in Windows 11 (although some people do not want the notes block to be swollen with these things, it must be remembered).
All of the above is incoming for Windows 11 evaluators soon, and Microsoft says that these characteristics should arrive at some point this month. It can still be a good time before they leakes to release versions of the operating system, so especially that review of the start menu, which is obviously a considerable company. That could be intended for Windows 11 25h2, in which it is rumored that Microsoft is working now.
Analysis: A good start, but I hope Microsoft retains a key option filtered in the tests
It is good to see that this new design for the start menu is at stake, because, as I commented when it was first hidden hidden in test compilations, I think it is a laudable transformation for this crucial part of the Windows 11 interface (ignoring that horrible green scheme visited in the desktop in the Microsoft tissue, I must add).
Some of my praise, yes, was based on the fact that the leak also highlighted a new option to get rid of the recommendations panel completely in the start menu. Now, Microsoft certainly does not mention it here, but the company would not enter any detail of the essence in a brief first revelation like this.
So I hope this option is still available when this new design officially arrives at the Windows 11 test compilations, and it makes sense, because, as noted, the space is a cousin here, and the turn of that section of the panel would be useful in that regard. The option to abandon recommendations is also a capacity that many Windows 11 users have been interested in seeing implemented (and that is euphemism).
For those concerned with the general size of the start menu with the Rama telephone link side panel that is also present, in the right hand, as you can see in the previous Microsoft screenshot of the new user interface, they no longer monopolize the entire desktop, as it seemed to do when a leak appeared to appear in a Windows 11 compilation recently.
In general, the redesigned start menu is forming well. Let us keep our crossed fingers so that the choice to get rid of the recommendations section is not something that Microsoft has had a rethinking.
