Say what you want about Windows—I’ve certainly said my fair share—but recent months have shown at least that Microsoft is willing to make some positive changes. Now, at least some of these are coming to fruition, as the company is releasing an improved Windows start menu search box for Insiders.
The changes are ones that do look genuinely substantial for, well, probably anyone who regularly uses a Windows PC. They include:
Obviously, a lot of the proof will be in the eating of the pudding. The improvements to reliability and search surfacing the correct files, for instance, aren’t something to gather from screenshots alone. But the screenshots that Microsoft does provide for some of the other changes are promising.
In particular, I like the simplified and cleaner menu when searching, showing only a list of recent searches. I also like the preview pane for files and the fact that file extensions aren’t hidden.