

Needless to say, this design can be further enhanced with accent colors using just a single checkbox in the Settings app. This design creates a beautiful stage for your apps, especially the Fluent Design icons for Office and Microsoft Edge, as well as the redesigned icons for built-in apps like Calculator, Mail, and Calendar that we started rolling out earlier this year.” “We are freshening up the Start menu with a more streamlined design that removes the solid color backplates behind the logos in the apps list and applies a uniform, partially transparent background to the tiles.

Microsoft says the following about the new Start menu design: The theme-aware tiles are available for both the light and the dark themes in Windows 10 and come as part of Windows 10 build 20161. More specifically, this refined Start menu comes with theme-aware tiles, which means that the design overall aligns with the modern push in Windows 10 and gives up on the solid colors that were previously used by live tiles for extra acrylic and the new icons that Microsoft published earlier this year. Microsoft has recently announced an improved Start menu design in the latest preview builds that the company shipped to users enrolled in the Windows Insider program.
