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..In a new video celebrating the milestone, shared on Instagram by Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer at Microsoft, the company has teased a few new UI changes coming to the start menu. The video starts off by going through the various versions of the OS from Windows 1.0 through Windows 10, after which the new app icons are seen replacing the older squared icons in the app list on the start menu.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-teases-new-windows-10-start-menu-in-its-success-video

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The video failed to load in both Firefox and Pale Moon when I clicked on it from the Neowin post. “Secure Connection Failed,” each browser said.

 

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The video is working for me, in Pale Moon, at this time, with https.

It is a teaser- upbeat music, nice visuals, showing options to customize. No verbal, just a cute visual dance.

I definitely approve of more choices. Customizing color and font and such are important to me. My desktop is much more than a screen for me, and while I need it to be easy to read, I really want something that is beautiful to be working with.

Now… they’ve listened about customization, and it does make me hopeful… but … still waiting on being able to choose about telemetry. With Windows 7 I was able to never install any of the telemetry, and had a very stable, beautiful, and well used system.

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Watched the video, but I’ve been using StartIsBack (the Windows 7 Shell, with optional XP-style flyout menu) since Windows 8, lifetime license for $3.00 (it’s now StartIsBack++ and $3.99 lifetime license).

My desktop is indistinguishable from Windows 7 visually and practically, I’m now on StartIsBack++ v2.9 (free upgrades) and I see no reason to change, regardless of what Microsoft does.

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We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

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Disappointing, ain’t it?

I wonder if this will turn out to be a Photoshopped fake, like the old videos of Longhorn before it turned into a pile of vapor.

Paul Thurrott has a great review of it (paywalled).

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What do you find disappointing?

To me, it looks a lot like the old menu… the tile backgrounds have changed from the various colors to gray (an improvement, IMO), and the icons are no longer those white outline things (another improvement), but the basic layout looks pretty much the same.  I’m not disappointed, per se.  It’s about what I would expect.

What I would really like to see would be an option to use the Windows 7 style start menu, along with an option to use the Classic style start menu.  That would be a signal that MS is starting to understand that it’s not about Microsoft’s branding when it comes to how a given person’s PC looks and acts, but instead what meets that individual’s needs.

The option to use the Classic start menu, of course, was removed from Windows 7, not because there was ever really anything wrong with people having that option (not by default!), but because MS wanted to project an image of modernity, and the “Windows 95” start menu was anything but that.  People asked them not to remove it, and their response was that the Classic start menu was more than 10 years old, and it was time to move on.  It wasn’t fashionable any more, so those users who wanted to keep it saw Microsoft’s desire for branding override their own usability concerns on their own hardware.

That, of course, was long before the Nadella era.  He didn’t begin it, but he has certainly upped the ante.  It would be nice to see some movement back toward what the customer wants rather than what MS wants.

 

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New lipstick, same pig.

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