Microsoft proposed the concept of Live Tile, the dynamic panels linked to the applications, with Windows Phone 7, arriving later to propose it also on the classic Windows for computers, in an attempt to enter the nascent tablet sector.
The low success of Windows 8 is history and since then Live Tiles have assumed an ever lesser role in Windows. At the moment we find them inside the Start menu, and frankly they don't prove to be so useful – Microsoft probably had other plans.
If we combine this with the death of Windows 10 Mobile and the first cries of Windows 10X, the question arises: what future will Live Tiles have? Simple, I am destined to disappear from the face of the earth.
The new icons for Windows 10 proposed by Microsoft to Windows Insiders
According to rumors published by Windows Latest, in the near future the Windows 10 Start menu may lose Live Tiles in favor of non-dynamic icons. It is rumored that the new Start menu would resemble that of Windows 10X, but with a user interface more suitable for classic "desktop" use.
"Developers have told us that Microsoft is planning to replace the Live Tiles in a future update after the release of Windows 10 20H2", writes Windows Latest.
Windows 10 20H2 is the second feature update scheduled for this year, probably in November, and consequently the renewal of the Start menu should arrive in the 2021, probably with the first update of that year.
Do not forget, however, that in the past weeks Microsoft has started to propose new icons for the Windows 10 apps through the Windows Insider program (you see them in this news), therefore the development of a new "look" for the operating system is already in progress. course of work. The farewell to Live Tiles could therefore only be a piece of a larger plan.
