Windows 10, the Start menu could say good-bye to Live Tiles
Microsoft would be working in anticipation of the first update of 2021 to a renewal of the Windows 10 Start menu. Live Tiles, dynamic icons borrowed from the mobile sphere and never really appreciated, should leave the scene.
Microsoft has proposed the concept of Live Tile, the dynamic panels related to applications, with Windows Phone 7, coming to propose it later also on the classic Windows for computers, in an attempt to enter the nascent tablet sector.
The low success of Windows 8 is history, and since then, Live Tiles have assumed less and less role in Windows. At the moment, we are finding them in the Start menu, and frankly, they don’t prove to be so useful – Microsoft probably had other plans.
If we combine this with the death of Windows 10 Mobile and the first cries of Windows 10X, the question arises: what future will Live Tiles have? Simple, they are destined to disappear from the face of the earth.
According to rumors published by Windows Latest, shortly, the Windows 10 Start menu may lose Live Tiles in favor of non-dynamic icons. It is rumored that the new Start menu would resemble that of Windows 10X, with a user interface more suitable for classic ” desktop ” use.
” People familiar with the development have told us that Microsoft is planning to replace the Live Tiles in a future update after the release of Windows 10 20H2, ” writes Windows Latest.
Windows 10 20H2 is the second feature update scheduled for this year, probably in November, and consequently, the renewal of the Start menu should arrive in 2021, probably with the first update of that year.
Do not forget, that in recent weeks, Microsoft has started to propose new icons for the Windows 10 apps through the Windows Insider program (you see them in this news), the development of a new ” look ” for the operating system is already in the progress course of work. The farewell to Live Tiles could only be a piece of a larger plan.
