Microsoft's redesigned Windows 11 Start Menu is a step-up over its predecessor, squarely because I can turn it into an ...

Microsoft has started testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu, a new experiment the company says will help users find new "great" apps in the Microsoft Store. The trial is now rolling out in the Beta ...

Microsoft has rolled out a new way to further mismanage the Windows 11 Start menu: displaying ads in the form of recommended apps. The ads are part of the KB5036980 update that rolled out to Windows ...

The big picture: If there's one thing Microsoft loves to tinker with, it's the Start menu. After years of experimentation, the company still hasn't settled on a definitive design for Windows 11.

Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside the European Economic Area (EEA) region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client ...

Ads in Microsoft Windows' Start menu are nothing new, and it's no surprise that they're coming to Windows 11. Microsoft has been testing ads in beta releases, and this week the update that places ...

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 ...