{"id":98246,"date":"2016-07-11T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T08:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98246"},"modified":"2016-07-11T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T08:50:29","slug":"check-out-the-updated-windows-10-start-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/98246-check-out-the-updated-windows-10-start-menu","title":{"rendered":"Check out the updated Windows 10 Start Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released\u00a0a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build for PC and Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re churning out builds like crazy,\u201d said\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2016\/07\/09\/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-14385-for-pc-and-mobile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes Microsoft is introducing, which form part of the upcoming Anniversary Update, is a new look for the Start Menu.<\/p>\n<p>With Microsoft pushing\u00a0to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/170213-windows-10-anniversary-update-launch-date-announced.html\">release the Anniversary Update on\u00a02 August 2016<\/a><\/strong>, the latest preview provides insight into\u00a0what the Start Menu will look like after the update.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/whats-new-start-menu-windows-10-anniversary-update\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Central compared<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the old Start Menu to the new version, as shown below.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The new Windows 10 Start Menu is wider and taller, and has an extra column of icons<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Windows-10-Start-Menu-anniversary-update-vs-old.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1692115584\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-171359 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Windows-10-Start-Menu-anniversary-update-vs-old-640x313.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 10 Start Menu - anniversary update vs old\" width=\"640\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">A new hamburger button expands the left-most menu<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Windows-10-Start-Menu-Anniversary-Update-hamburger-menu.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1880667195\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-new-size wp-image-171361\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Windows-10-Start-Menu-Anniversary-Update-hamburger-menu-640x560.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 10 Start Menu Anniversary Update hamburger menu\" width=\"640\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">\u201cChaseable\u201d live tiles<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft has also introduced a new feature it calls <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/tiles_and_toasts\/2016\/04\/06\/chaseable-tiles-know-what-was-clicked-on-your-live-tile-windows-10-uwp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chaseable live tiles<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Live tiles display information from an application, such as temperatures from a weather app or headlines from a news app.<\/p>\n<p>Clicking the tile normally opens the application, rather than take you to the information selected.<\/p>\n<p>Chaseable live tiles will let\u00a0developers open their app\u00a0at a specific place, depending on what was being displayed in the live tile before it was clicked.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/171343-what-the-new-windows-10-start-menu-looks-like.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How soon fibre can overtake ADSL in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/97940-how-soon-fibre-can-overtake-adsl-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How soon fibre can overtake ADSL in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Pok\u00e9mon GO is more popular than Tinder\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/98224-pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-tinder.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pok\u00e9mon GO is more popular than Tinder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Radeon RX 480 versus GeForce GTX 970 \u2013 which should you buy?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97688-radeon-rx-480-versus-geforce-gtx-970-which-should-you-buy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Radeon RX 480 versus GeForce GTX 970 \u2013 which should you buy?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at the new, updated Windows 10 Start Menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":82038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20264,31,10523,20262,15397,20260,14474,435,2791,13009],"class_list":["post-98246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-20264","tag-active","tag-features-2","tag-menu","tag-pc","tag-start","tag-upcoming","tag-update","tag-windows","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}