start menu redesign

Microsoft’s latest Start menu rethink is no longer a tease: Windows 11 is getting a noticeably larger, single‑surface Start that folds the long-hidden All apps list into one vertically scrollable canvas, gives you new views for browsing apps, and tucks Phone Link access into the launcher —...

Microsoft has quietly begun replacing the familiar Windows 11 Start menu with a much larger, single-page design that rearranges pinned apps, promotes Microsoft’s recommendations, and folds the complete app list into the main surface — and it’s rolling out now as part of the late‑2025 feature and...

Microsoft has quietly rebuilt the Windows 11 Start menu into something that finally feels useful again — and if you don’t want to wait for Microsoft’s staged rollout, there’s a straightforward (but unsupported) way to turn it on today using the community tool ViVeTool. Background: why this...

Microsoft is rolling a noticeable redesign of the Windows 11 Start menu to more devices as part of its recent servicing updates, and the change—packaged inside preview and cumulative updates and gated via staged enablement—represents the most consequential Start update since Windows 11’s...

Microsoft has quietly begun pushing a redesigned Start menu to a much wider audience of Windows 11 users, and the change — while not radical in visuals — is a fundamental rework of how apps, recommendations and phone integration appear in the shell. Microsoft says the refreshed Start is being...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a fundamental redesign of the Windows 11 Start menu that replaces the old two‑pane model with a single, vertically scrollable launcher, new “All apps” presentation modes, tighter Phone Link integration, and a series of adjacent taskbar and reliability changes — a...

Windows 11’s recent news cycle reads like a user‑experience stress test: a redesigned, giant Start menu that many users find intrusive; a shadowy servicing update (KB5012432) that’s rolling in for insiders but not everyone; hints that Copilot is moving from the sidebar into File Explorer; small...

If you booted your PC recently and found a much larger, unfamiliar Start menu waiting for you, that sudden change is not a bug — it’s the new, redesigned Windows 11 Start rolling out to users now, delivered via optional servicing packages and staged feature flags that can make the appearance...