Microsoft’s ‘Windows K2’ initiative brings new features to the Windows 11 Start menu

Microsoft is finally fixing the Windows 11 Start menu with resizing, section toggles, and improved recommendation controls.
PC World

Windows 11’s new Start menu is now available! Here’s how to get it

Microsoft has started rolling out the new Start menu for Windows 11, which we previously did a deep dive preview on. Both versions 24H2 and the newer 25H2 of Windows 11 can use the new Start menu.
Ars Technica

Microsoft shares its process (and discarded ideas) for redone Windows 11 Start menu

Microsoft put a lot of focus on Windows 11’s design when it released the operating system in 2021, making a clean break with the design language of Windows 10 (which had, itself, simply tweaked and ...
Neowin

Windows 11's redesigned Start menu has some very strange bugs

The October 2025 non-security update for Windows 11 (it is now called "preview update") finally brought the redesigned Start menu to the masses. After four years of complaints, Microsoft has ...