Windows 11 beta deep dive: new design, dark mode, and Start menu

You can now test a preview version of Windows 11 before its launch later this year. Here's our first look at Microsoft's new OS, including the new Start menu, design, store, and much more.

[avs_ytb]

Instead of saying more simplified, I will say Windows 11 looks more minimalistic.

[nintendofanatic]

They actually didn't skip a number this time. I'm proud!

[DerChristian]

I like the redesign, but I hate how inconsistent it is across the OS...

[darkgaara]

Soccer games? What kind of british person are you?!?!

[kshitizdewani]

Without even watching this video, I can bet we will still have that old windows 7 style control panel hidden somewhere

[saurabhmehta]

It's weird that Microsoft reps didn't even mention the important under the hood changes their engineers made to optimize performance of hybrid cpus, which are probably going to be a big thing in future

[raedwulf]

The most important thing is the rounded corners.

[vinny]

I don't mind the centred look, but why is the system icons are still in the corner?! my symmetry 😂

[abdullahhassan]

give the editor a raise that was silky 0:37

[tom_]

Those old interface panels still lurking inside are absolutely rank.

[JohnXionidis]

Hopefully they are gonna consider tabs for file explorer. I have been using stardock's groupy software for tabs on windows 10 and i just cant go back to using file explorer without them.

[scott]

This feels a lot like MacOS but windowfied, it looks great, I especially love the new icons but man, Microsoft will never get a consistent design or what?

[jeremy]

When you open the microsoft store and hover over the featured banner to the top there is also a nice visual touch. the area where the mouse pointer is lights up brighter

[waytakaq]

I don't have the new Microsoft Store in my update for some reason I still have the old one

[chequeredflag]

That subtle taskbar animation whenever you open an app that's not pinned to taskbar,
is amazing.

Every icon just bounces to make room for new app icon.

[mattceccotti]

To the Verge bosses: I really appreciate Tom's style of showing and explaining things.

[giovanni]

A centered taskbar is something I've been using on win10 for years.

[lvpdesign]

4:04 Seems like a resource savings move.

[cvzn]

This is just same old Microsoft. Notepad has a menu bar from 1995, Paint has a menu bar from 2007, Windows Explorer has a menu bar from 2021. How hard is it to release an update where everything is actually updated and consistent?

[TalesOfWar]

So. We have another new UI on top of all the other UI's we still have from the last 30 years. Great...