14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft equipped Windows 10 Technical Preview with a brand new Start menu that also includes live tiles, thus making the standard feature that had been removed in Windows 8 come with both the familiar look from Windows 7 and a modern touch borrowed from newer OSes.
There’s no doubt that this new Start menu achieves its goal of offering a much more familiar working environment that reminds of Windows 7, but there are users who believe that Microsoft should continue improving it not only in terms of looks, but also functionality.
Live tiles are among the features that users want to be improved in future builds of Windows 10 TP, so the feedback center launched by Microsoft as part of the Windows Insider Program contains all kinds of suggestions in this regard.
At this point, there are only a few requests to remove the live tiles completely from the Start menu, which could be an indication that users are actually finding them really helpful, so Microsoft might have made the right decision with the current mix of traditional and modern elements.
Select multiple tiles with CTRL
The most requested feature right now is the possibility to select multiple tiles with the CTRL key, which would enable users to move them in the Start menu or delete them completely more easily.
The second request notes that “tiles seem to align horizontally instead of smartly, when I place two medium tiles and they align horizontally, they leave a large gap of empty space beneath them.” At the same time, it adds that “tiles should wrap below each other if they fit to minimize the empty space.”
Another request that also received many votes brings the same “gap” between live tiles in the spotlight, explaining that “reformatting should make these gaps smaller and thus make the Start menu generally better to look at.”
Changes are on their way
Microsoft is really willing to listen to customer feedback this time around and the upcoming builds of Windows 10 Technical Preview will include new animations, sources say.
We’re also hearing from people close to the matter that other improvements are also planned, so the Start menu could get new features as well, some of which could be based on the feedback submitted by users.
The final version of Windows 10 is scheduled to go live in spring 2015, so a lot could change until then, but there’s no doubt that every single request that users submit via the feedback app needs as many votes as possible in order to raise its chances to be developed.