Microsoft is preparing to launch Windows 10 2004 in the coming months. The new operating system update will introduce major changes for the first time in a year after the decaffeinated November 2019 Update that they released so limited to avoid introducing new bugs. One of the biggest changes in the new version would be the new start menu , which the company has shown in great detail.
Images of the new Windows 10 start menu have already been previously shown, where some of the main aspects that will change the new design have been analyzed. The company is working to change the design philosophy of this function, and now the Microsoft Design account itself has published a video on its Twitter account of a few seconds where the changes and modernization of this function are seen.
In the video we can see how Microsoft neglects the square design of the dynamic icons a little and allows others with a rectangular finish that include much more information. Thanks to this, we can see notifications in a similar way to what happens on Android, where Mail shows us the last email received and we can know the latest status of each application.
The company has released the video to collect user feedback on the new design, as they haven’t even released it to the Insiders Quick Ring. The fact that nobody has been able to prove it yet suggests that the function may not arrive until at least the second half of the year. The company wants to minimize errors after having released buggy monthly updates in recent weeks, where there are users who have been unable to turn on their computers because of them.
Icons lose text: it will now be more difficult to identify them
The new start menu has completely redesigned icons to better conform to Microsoft’s Fluent Design , in addition to having more space in general and larger icons to facilitate interaction with the content we want. Dynamic icons are still around, even though there were rumors that Microsoft was going to remove them. Although they will not do it in this version, in the face of future versions they dropped that they were going to do it.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be a first for Microsoft if they didn’t do something wrong, and in the new design we can see how the icons have no text underneath them. Currently, each icon has a text corresponding to the name of the app or program. After the update, you will have to know by heart what each icon corresponds to if you do not want to make a mistake, and that will also involve learning the new icons, as they will change and we will not be familiar with the new ones. Hopefully, the responses from users will make them think about it and continue to include the name underneath, or at least hovering over, making it faster to add or remove programs from the start menu .