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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, ...

Modern app icons are slowly appearing in Microsoft’s OS Modern app icons are slowly appearing in Microsoft’s OS is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC ...

Microsoft has given a sneak peek at a new Windows 10 Start Menu design that lets the company's new batch of icons shine without the solid-color Live Tile blocks familiar to users. Revealed by the ...

The sound, vision and feel of Windows 11 bring together a bit of history, a focus on cutting edge technology and a more prosaic human touch, according to one of the lead designers of the newly ...

The People app on Windows 10 has a new icon. The icon meets Microsoft's Fluent Design guidelines. Microsoft is rolling out new icons to all of its apps. Yet another Microsoft app has a new icon. This ...

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 ...

Windows 11 Dev channel build 22000.71 is now out with a bunch of improvements, including tweaks to the design of context menus to adapt to the design language, a new entertainment widget, and more. It ...

In brief: If there's one thing you can say about Microsoft's products, it's that they never stay the same for long, for better or worse. While that fact often presents itself in the form of sweeping ...

Microsoft revealed today the redesigned icon for the Windows 10 Task Manager program as part of a user interface refresh coming in the upcoming Sun Valley feature update. Last year, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has delivered some blows to Task Manager in recent times. As noted last week by PC Gamer's Andy Edser, the Windows team recently stamped out a bug that granted Task Manager immortality. The ...

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 ...