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William_Holmes
Jan 18, 2026Brass Contributor
The New Start Menu Is a Perfect Example of Microsoft Forcing Unwanted “Features” on Users
I’m posting this because I’m beyond fed up with the direction Microsoft is taking with Windows, and the latest Start Menu redesign is really unwelcomed. Whoever decided to implement the new “All” sec...
Chris14
Jan 20, 2026Copper Contributor
Fully agree.
MS has not learn its lesson after the Windows 8 Start Screen failure a few years back.
Offering the choice of changing to an updated layout is fine, imposing this as the new normal to everyone is not.
Offering this choice would something that would be very easy to do; i.e. such as the choice for keeping the Start Menu button in the taskbar in the left, as opposed to the center.
I will be using third party tools to revert this back to something that is actually acceptable for me, as I did back in Windows 8.
And Microsoft wonders why people want to disable updates, well, imposed changes like this is part of the reason.