Microsoft should change the Windows 10 Start menu to take inspiration from work done on Windows 10X.
The new Start menu would be inspired by Windows 10X
For Microsoft, the Sun Valley project must mark a new beginning for Windows 10 on PC. And then what could be better than changing where it all begins: the system Start menu. The company has always developed this famous menu over the versions of its system and we remember the much criticized Windows 8 start screen which took advantage of modernity and touch screens with a full screen display.
With Windows 10, Microsoft had chosen to put out the fire and offer a hybrid menu between the old Start menu and the Start screen, still keeping the good old dynamic tiles. The firm even leaves the choice to the user to keep the full screen if he wishes. Still, these are legacies from Windows 7 and Windows 8 and not really a new proposal.
A new menu inspired by Windows 10X
With Sun Valley, Microsoft could completely review this Start menu and offer it a new experience. This new proposal would be inspired by the work of Windows 10X, the simplified and possibly stillborn system.
The new Windows 10X start menu
We must therefore imagine a mix between what Windows 10X wanted to offer and the Start menu which already exists in Windows 10. With a little exercise of imagination, we can visualize a Start menu which would start at the bottom left and which would only take ‘ part of the screen.
It would no longer integrate tiles, but would still offer dynamic content: news, the latest documents or even the weather. On the left side of the menu, the list of apps would still be there, but completely simplified and without the folders inherited from older versions of Windows.
A revival for Windows
The groundwork on Sun Valley continues unabated in the Microsoft offices. It remains to be seen if all this will see the light of day, if the brand will go through with its efforts and when. Hopefully the build conference scheduled for the end of May will be the beginning of an answer.
