Gone are the Windows 7 days where everyone agreed that it was one of the best-designed operating systems. Now there's Windows 11, which has users torn.

The Windows Start Menu has undergone numerous redesigns over the years, with some incarnations having proven more popular than others. The current Start Menu design roots back to Windows 11's launch ...

The Start Menu has been the central element in Microsoft Windows for nearly three decades. Though loved initially for its resourcefulness, the Menu went through some debatable — I call them abhorrent ...

Listen, I know we all love to complain about the Windows start menu, and I don't want to beat a dead horse here. But it's hard to deny that the Windows 11 Start menu was a downgrade from Windows 10, ...

Microsoft put a lot of focus on Windows 11’s design when it released the operating system in 2021, making a clean break with the design language of Windows 10 (which had, itself, simply tweaked and ...

Windows 11’s new Start menu is rolling out and the community reaction is not great.

Windows 11 Update Brings Customizable Start Menu and Streamlined App Discovery Your email has been sent Microsoft has finally begun rolling out a redesigned Start menu for Windows 11, to the relief of ...

With Windows 11’s November 2025 Update (update KB5068861), Microsoft fixed some bugs but also introduced some new issues. The biggest news item, however, was the introduction of a completely new and ...

Microsoft is finally preparing some seriously big upgrades for the Start menu in Windows 11, and you can already check them out in the latest updates. Windows 11's Start menu is one of the reasons ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...