- Microsoft has revealed new changes to normal Windows 11 devices, alongside all the revelations that have just done on Copilot + PCS
- This includes a big decision with the overhaul of the start menu which was previously disclosed in the tests
- Hopefully the choice to delete the section of the start menu recommendations, as we can see in this leak, will be kept
Microsoft has confirmed that a major overhaul of the Windows 11 start menu is coming, as well as other useful consonance adjustments.
In case you have missed it, there has just been a major revelation on all incoming goodies for Copilot + PC – including an AI agent integrated into the Settings application, to adjust the modifications for you – but there have also been revelations about Windows 11 normal PCs (you know, the type that almost everyone always uses).
The revamped start menu is not a surprise, because a leak has previously discovered the hidden work in the test versions. However, with Microsoft officially revealing it, we know that it will be live and tested in the goals of the Windows 11 overview soon.
The idea is to take the start menu and transform it into a single scrolling panel, with applications pinned at the top, recommendations below, and the complete exhaustive list of applications installed on your PC under the bottom. The current arrangement has this complete list of applications divided into a separate panel (to which you switch with a button click).
The consolidation of all this in a single section is logical for me, and the menu will be wider to help adapt to additional content.
In addition to that, Microsoft has made a little DIY with layout choices for the full list of applications to allow them to better adapt the available space. This is already underway in tests, allowing you to organize the list of applications more compact using categories as a single option.
Microsoft notes that: “The new view of the category all applications tries automatically according to the applications and the categories that you use the most, so that you can quickly access all your favorites.”
Aside from the work on the Start menu, Microsoft also introduces AI actions in File Explorer. This means that when you work with File Explorer – your office files – you will get AI actions on the right click menu. Thus, for example, an image file can have an AI capacity relating to the photo application as a shortcut.
It is essentially a vanilla vision on “ click to do ”, which is the more in -depth system of the functionality of the functionality of AI, more in -depth, incorporated with Copilot + PCS (which have some additional AI capacities, of course, and this number increases slowly as we have seen).
The Windows 11 notepad application is also reinforced, with AI features that allow you to generate text or summarize an article. More and more formatting options also arrive in the form of titles and support for lists, as well as fat and italics.
These seem to have been drafted thanks to the disappearance of WordPad, the notepad slowly obtaining more features added to offer an alternative feasible in Windows 11. (Although some people do not want the notepad to be swollen with this kind of thing, you have to remember).
Everything above is soon entering Windows 11 testers, and Microsoft says that these features should arrive at some point this month. This can be a good time before filtering to release the versions of the operating system, be careful – in particular this start -up menu, which is obviously an important business. This could be intended for Windows 11 25H2, on which Microsoft is currently working.
Analysis: a good start – but I hope Microsoft keeps a key option disclosed in tests
It is good to see that this new layout for the start menu comes into play, because, as I pointed out when it was seen for the first time hidden in the test versions, I think it is a commendable transformation for this crucial part of the Windows 11 interface (ignoring this horrible green color scheme visited on the Microsoft’s Teaser desk, I should add).
Some of my praise, Mind You, were based on the fact that the leak also highlighted a new option to completely get rid of the recommendations panel in the Start menu. Now, Microsoft certainly does not mention this here, but the company would not enter into any detail of a lower advance in a brief first revelation like this.
So I hope that this option will always be available when this new layout will be officially Windows 11 test builds – and it is logical that it is, because, as indicated, the space is at a bonus here, and themping that this section of the panel would be practical in this regard. The choice to abandon the recommendations is also a capacity that many Windows 11 users have made it possible to see implemented (and it is an understatement).
For those who are worried about the overall size of the Start menu with the side panel of the offshoot phone link which is also present – on the right side, as you can see in the Microsoft above screenshot of the new user interface – it no longer climbs the entire desk, as it seemed to do when a leak was falsified to appear in a Windows 11 test.
Overall, the redesigned start menu is formed well. Let us simply keep our fingers crossed that the choice of abandoning the recommendations section is not something that Microsoft has had a repensation.
