As anticipated by some
rumors in recent days,
Microsoft is working on a new design for the Windows 10 Start menu without
Live Tile. Brandon LeBlanc, senior program, confirmed the change
manager of the Windows Insider team, during a podcast. The concept shown can
be seen as a current state of play, designed to "differentiate
visually the Start menu from something color chaotic a
something pi uniform".
Microsoft 's goal is to simplify the menu e
make it easier to find apps by toning down the tile colors, i
blocks that Microsoft has introduced in the mobile field with Windows Phone 7 and
then exported to the desktop. The Tiles in and of themselves, as well as the Live Tiles,
that is, their dynamic implementation does not seem to disappear completely, at least not initially.
The new Start menu according to the concept shown by Microsoft – Click to enlarge
Although Microsoft is working on a Windows 10X menu
– SO for the new generation dual screen products and more –
without Live Tile, the traditional operating system not yet ready to
follow in the footsteps of the newcomer. "Live Tiles are not leaving, we do not have
announced nothing like that, "explained Brandon LeBlanc." Who loves their own
Live Tile will continue to do so. "
Reassuring statements aside, it seems
that Live Tile will completely leave the scene in the future. On one hand, the design direction taken makes him believe
from Microsoft (Fluent Design), with new icons that are ill-suited to the concept
above, and the fact that not all Microsoft apps built into Windows 10
support them. Not even third party developers have made great use of it.
Sources of
The Verge inside the Redmond house they say
that "a final decision on Live Tile in Windows 10 has not yet been made
despite the rumors, and that the feedback tied by the modification of Windows 10X
will determine their future. "
The current Windows 10 Start menu – Click to enlarge
Microsoft is not currently exposed to the
timing of arrival of the new Start menu, but with Windows 10 20H1 completed
probably we will have to wait for 2021 and more precisely Windows 10 21H1, either
according to the previous ones
rumors that according to the latest feature updates of the operating system, with the
second update of the year less dense than the first.
