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After years of criticism over Windows 11’s original launcher, Microsoft has quietly delivered a genuinely improved Start menu — a single, scrollable surface with three All‑apps views, toggles to silence recommendations, and deeper Phone Link integration — and users who don’t want to wait for the...

Windows 10’s end-of-life has sharpened the upgrade conversation, and many users who moved to Windows 11 have found a handful of modernizations more irritating than helpful — especially the compact right‑click menu, the redesigned Start layout, Start search’s Bing integration, the growing...

Microsoft's latest preview update for Windows 11 — KB5067036 — delivers the most significant Start menu overhaul since the OS launched, promoting a single, scrollable, and more adaptive Start experience that Microsoft says will make app discovery faster and more intuitive for both tablet and...

Microsoft’s long-running experiment with the Windows 11 Start menu has finally produced a practical, much-improved design — and while Microsoft is rolling it out gradually via the October/November 2025 servicing preview (KB5067036), enthusiasts can get the new Start now if they’re willing to...

Microsoft’s Release Preview push for Windows 11 on October 28, 2025 is a feature‑rich, optional preview cumulative (KB5067036) that ships updated OS binaries for both the 24H2 and 25H2 servicing lanes while intentionally gating many visible features server‑side — meaning installing the package...

Microsoft has started rolling out the October 2025 non‑security preview for Windows 11 to the Release Preview channel: builds 26100.7015 (24H2) and 26200.7015 (25H2) are available now under KB5067036, bringing a sizable collection of user‑facing refinements — a redesigned Start menu, deeper...

In late summer 2015 Microsoft quietly acknowledged that Windows RT devices would not be upgraded to the full Windows 10 experience, but promised a small, targeted refresh — a September update that would bring an improved Start menu and a refreshed lock screen to Surface RT and Surface 2 owners...

Microsoft is rolling out the most consequential Start menu overhaul Windows 11 has seen since the OS launched — a reinvention that replaces the rigid two-pane layout with a single, scrollable launcher, adds Category and Grid views for app discovery, folds Phone Link into the Start surface, and...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider build delivers the most visible Start menu overhaul since the OS launched, promoting the All apps list to the main page, adding Category and Grid browsing modes, folding Phone Link into a collapsible Start pane, and pairing those changes with File Explorer...

Microsoft has pushed the redesigned Start menu and a cluster of interface and reliability fixes into the Release Preview channel — a final testing phase that almost always precedes a wider rollout — meaning the new Start experience, improved Voice Access dictation, File Explorer recommendations...

Microsoft has started rolling the redesigned Start menu and a raft of on-device AI features to Windows Insiders on the Release Preview Channel via update KB5067036, bringing the new Start UX, colored battery icons, Copilot Vision taskbar sharing, File Explorer enhancements, and Copilot+‑only...

Microsoft’s Release Preview drop KB5067036 (Builds 26100.7015 for 24H2 and 26200.7015 for 25H2) brings a concentrated set of user-facing improvements — chief among them a new, on-device “Fluid Dictation” mode inside Voice Access — and a broader set of Start menu, File Explorer, and Copilot...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview drop for Windows 11 — published as KB5067036 and delivered as Builds 26100.7015 (24H2) and 26200.7015 (25H2) — introduces a redesigned, more adaptive Start menu alongside a suite of on-device AI refinements, deeper Phone Link integration, and several...

Microsoft has pushed a substantial Release Preview update to Windows 11 Insiders — KB5067036 — delivering a redesigned Start menu, on-device AI improvements for voice access, deeper Copilot integrations (Click to Do and Copilot Vision), File Explorer Home enhancements, Taskbar and battery icon...

Today’s Release Preview drop for Windows 11 — cumulative update KB5067036 delivering Builds 26100.7015 (24H2) and 26200.7015 (25H2) — is a focused but consequential update: it stitches in a broad sweep of user-facing polish, expands on-device AI capabilities for Copilot+ hardware, and patches a...

Microsoft’s October Insider waves delivered a concentrated set of experiments — from polished dark‑mode fixes to new AI touches and a visible rethink of the Start menu — giving Insiders a clear snapshot of the company’s near‑term priorities for Windows 11. What shipped in the first half of...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flight delivers one of the clearest usability overhauls Windows 11 has seen in years: a single, scrollable Start menu with new Category and Grid views, tighter Phone Link integration, an in-box command-line editor called Edit, and a packaging change for legacy .NET...

If you’ve spent hours arranging tiles on the Windows 10 Start menu, the prospect of losing that layout during a feature update is infuriating — but there’s a practical, built‑in way to export and later restore your Start layout on modern Windows 10 builds without relying on the old TileDataLayer...

Microsoft has started rolling the redesigned Start menu and a built-in command-line text editor to Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965, bringing a scrollable, responsive Start that groups apps by category (or grid) and introducing Edit, a...

Microsoft has quietly returned the Start menu to a larger, scrollable surface in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965 — a deliberate, iterative redesign that puts “All apps” on the top level, introduces Category and Grid browsing modes, and folds Phone Link into Start’s chrome, while also...