In celebration of Microsoft's 50th anniversary in 2025, it's an appropriate moment to look at the evolution of one of its most iconic features. Of course, I'm referring to the Start menu for Windows.

The update feels like a partial return to the full screen Start Menu from Windows 8, and the expanded height menu on Windows 10. The new Start Menu doesn’t take up the entire display, but it uses more ...

The Start menu is always one of the most controversial parts of Windows, and that's definitely true with Windows 11 as well.

Windows 11 has become so synonymous with Microsoft's push into generative AI that it's easy to forget that it originally launched as a mostly cosmetic overhaul of Windows 10. But Microsoft continues ...

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 ...