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Microsoft has followed up this week's one billion monthly active user milestone for Windows 10 with a video showing off the new Start Menu without Live Tiles, and new interfaces for File Explorer, ...

The big picture: Microsoft's monochromatic app icons have spent quite some time in Windows 10, but things are soon set to change for consumers, given that the company started pushing out new colorful ...

Microsoft has been dropping subtle hints in the weeks leading up to its June 24th event, but the big surprise might have already been spoiled. On Tuesday, purported screenshots of a Windows 11 beta ...

The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

If you are running Windows 11 in Kenya, you might want to wake up your laptop and take a closer look at the taskbar today.

Microsoft's Windows 11 early build was leaked days before its actual launch on June 24. It revealed that the latest OS borrowed some design aspects of Windows 10X. More precisely, the start menu comes ...

Windows 11 will shake up its interface with a new Start menu and bring the taskbar toward the center of the screen, a move that echoes the positioning of the dock in macOS. Microsoft's next iteration ...

While the UI overhaul and new productivity features are largely welcome, Microsoft also restricts customizability in a number of new ways in Windows 11. While the biggest updates for business users ...

It's a well-known fact that Microsoft is updating a lot of the icons for its apps with a new look based on its own Fluent Design language, a transition that started with the announcement of new Office ...