Microsoft Refines the Start Menu in Windows 10 Build 14366

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Small tweaks added ahead of the public launch in the summer

   This is the current Start menu in Windows 10

 

Microsoft’s recently released Windows 10 build 14366 is mostly about bug fixing, as the company is now putting the final touches to the Anniversary Update ahead of the public release due in July.

But at the same time, the company has also implemented a series of tweaks here and here that refine the experience with the OS, and the Start menu is one of the features that have gotten improved.

As you probably know, the Start menu has a new look in the Anniversary Update, as it comes with its own hamburger menu and with the focus put on the app list, so with today’s new build, Microsoft is making new changes to ensure you easily access the recently installed apps.

“In an effort to improve visibility and access to your newly installed apps, we have moved the ‘Recently added’ section of Start to be located above the ‘Most used’ section in the All apps list. We’ve also increased the duration of time in which apps will be listed here - now 7 days, so you can easily try them out and decide if you want to pin them to Start or the taskbar for regular use and quick access,” Microsoft states.

More app recommendations too

So as you can see in the screenshot below, the new Windows 10 Anniversary Update Start menu comes with the “Recently added” section above the app list, so the emphasis is clearly on the apps that you get from the Store.

This is clearly a welcome improvement that simply makes sense because, this way, users can easily access the apps they install, although in the Anniversary Update, recently installed apps can also be launched from the Action Center.

In the stable version of Windows 10 (non-Anniversary Update), the Recently added section is placed below the “Most used” category, and when there are no newly installed apps, the Start menu displays app suggestions that have often been considered ads.

These “ads” will survive in the Anniversary Update too, and additionally, there’ll be more of them, as Microsoft increases the number from 5 to 10.

 

 The design of the Start menu in the upcoming Anniversary Update

 

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[Onixra]

Again M$.. fuck your apps.. I don't want them, I don't need them

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Major Windows 10 update nears as Microsoft stops adding features

 

Microsoft is hurtling toward the consumer release of its big Windows 10 Anniversary Update with the latest beta build for its operating system that launched on Tuesday. 

 

The launch of build 14366 signals a temporary end to Microsoft's releasing new features for Windows 10, according to a blog post by Dona Sarkar, the voice of the Windows Insider Program. The focus of this update is on a "bug bash" event this week to help beta testers find bugs so Microsoft can fix them before broadly releasing its big Anniversary Update. 

 

Over the next four days, users of the beta build will be able to go through step-by-step guides inside Windows 10 to try and find bugs. Microsoft will publish a series of "quests" through the Insider Hub app that's only available to its Windows Insider public beta testers that will walk people through different processes to look for bugs.

 

"Limited" quests will only stick around for 24 hours after publishing, so people who want to get the badges that come from completing them will have to act quickly. Then, there are "Advanced" quests that may ask users to tweak their computers' settings in order to try things out.

 

Those people doing Advanced quests will be responsible for getting their computer back to the way it was before they tweaked settings for the quest, even if nothing went wrong. If something does go awry, they’re responsible for fixing their own computer. Microsoft has made it clear that these are not for the faint of heart. 

 

The result of all that should be that the version of Windows 10 that rolls out to consumers soon has fewer bugs. There will likely still be bugs with the update, since that's the way of software, but a bug bash like this should help Microsoft test for issues on a wide variety of hardware.

 

This release includes a couple of minor new features, including a browser extension for Microsoft Edge that lets users access Office Online, and an update to the Windows Store to make it perform better. 

 

Ahead of the bug bash, Microsoft has added new fixes to previous problems with the Windows 10 beta. French users will get access to this build, since the Windows team found and eliminated the bug that caused large swaths of interface text to get rendered in English. (They were blocked from downloading the last one.)

 

Microsoft also gave users back the ability to access their privacy settings. In the previous beta build, the Settings app would crash when users tried to navigate to the privacy tab. 

Overall, Sarkar named 21 different bug fixes in her blog post, and it seems like there may be a lot more coming. 

 

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3084256/microsoft-windows/major-windows-10-update-nears-as-microsoft-stops-adding-features.html