Gadgetory

so I have here a very recent build of windows 10 for the PC and I'm going to begin on the Start menu I want to show you some of the work we've been doing to continue to tweak the design and improve the visuals and the interaction so you'll see what I've got here we think is pretty close to what we expect to have when we're done although of course we're going to continue to take feedback from our insiders you'll notice there's new beautiful live tile animations that help draw people's attention to the apps and the app data for the things that they've pinned um you'll notice we've cleaned the layout up a bit for those of you insiders who kind of surprised us with your enthusiasm for windows 7s arrow glass you'll notice the translucency here is the blur effect that you saw in Windows 7 so we're trying to bring some of that feel back we've got the most used apps here we're putting file explorer settings power all apps at the bottom we're bringing jump lists back in so you can see here's file explorer with jump lists and this will work for other apps as well thank you but the thing I want to sort of focus on a little bit is this space right here where in this case I haven't installed an app for a little while so the system is going to give us a smart suggestion for an app in the store that is going to be one that's suitable for me as i'm using my pc on the client we know which apps you're launching and which apps you're installing and so we're able to communicate with the store and bring down suggestions that are personalized for you to help users learn about great new apps that are available for them to try out on their PC and as time goes by we reuse that space in a smart way to help script the users discovery of apps first but then their engagement later so if I've installed an app as you see here for a little while that space becomes the recently installed app the user can find the app they can revisit it and if they use it enough it'll move its way up into the most used section automatically and of course at any time the user can drag from left to right to take any of those apps and pin them as full live tiles so think of this as the users lifecycle of discovery and engagement and use which we're trying to script right into the start menu