New Start screens revealed for Windows and Xbox - windomdound1972

Happening Wednesday, Microsoft revealed new looks for the Windows 10 and Xbox pop out screens: one deliberately, and one inadvertently.

A "sneaker" daily build of Windows 10 leaked into the wild on Wednesday, revealing a new, spartan Windows 10 Start card. It does away with the tiled look and feel of the conventional Bug out menu, and replaces IT with a sea of icons that look more ilk the "Dea" option that accompanies a file.

Images of the new Start computer menu were captured by various Twitter users. (Unfortunately, PCWorld's Insider machine was offline at the time. Microsoft's Dona Sarkar, the facial expressio of Microsoft's Insider computer program, didn't have an account. The company later confirmed, however, that an "internal preview bod was unintentionally released to a broader audience than foreseen." Microsoft also said that Insiders will need to use the rollback function to regaining to an earlier version of Windows 10 by going to Settings > Start > Update &adenosine monophosphate; Security > Recovery> Go backward to the premature version of Windows 10.)

Separately, however, Microsoft did affirm that changes are coming to the Xbox home screen. In situ of the "twists" at the top of the screen, where the interface pivots among Social, Lame Pass, the Xbox Community, and the Store, Microsoft has added dedicated buttons that users will have to navigate to and get through.

new xbox start screen experiment large — This new Xbox home-shield intent is being rolled out to Insiders.

"We've heard your feedback and have continued to restate on Home to stick you into your play experiences faster and holding more of your content front and center," Omar Nelson Bradle Rossetti, the Xbox Insider team lead, wrote. "With today's update, we'Ra experimenting with a streamlined exploiter interface." The new experimental Home rolls out this week to select Xbox Insiders in the Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead phone, Rossetti wrote, and may drop to early users in the future.

Peradventure heedful that the change mightiness not be common, Rossetti wrote that the new features may "change and even come and go" in response to user feedback. Microsoft did non hand over a timetable for when IT English hawthorn be rolled out to the Xbox user base at large.

Microsoft also said that a Thomas More bittersweet change is coming to the Xbox this fall: You North Korean won't equal able to talk to Cortana directly. Cortana (which was originally designed to be accessible via the now-discontinued Kinect television camera, then later via headset) will be wrong-side-out off. Instead, you'll be able to command your Xbox via the Xbox Acquisition for Cortana, for Windows (including the Harman Kardon Invoke speaker), iOS, and Humanoid. Alexa devices volition lul be able to control the Xbox, too. Microsoft will straighten the Cortana changes to its Insider rings premier, specifically the Alpha Skitter Ahead ring, this week.

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As PCWorld's senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft newsworthiness and chip applied science, among unusual beats. He has formerly written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.