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As you undoubtedly know by now, Windows 10’s Start menu has two faces. They’re designed to work together. You can be the judge of how well they live up to the design.

On the left side of the Start menu (see Figure 1-1), you see the Start menu that’s supposed to look like the Windows 7 (and Windows Vista and Windows XP) Start menu. On the right side of the Start menu, you see a bunch of tiles, some of which have useful information on them.

FIGURE 1-1: The Windows 10 Start menu as seen on a 1920 x 1080 (HD) monitor.

Although the left side of the Start menu is supposed to bring back warm, comforting memories of Windows 7 (and Windows XP), underneath the surface, the left part of the Start menu has almost nothing in common with Windows 7 and earlier Start menus. The old Start menu has been ripped out and replaced with this Windows 10-style list of links and, on the far left, a set of shortcut icons.

See the funny icon in the upper-left corner (and shown in the margin)? For the mathematicians in the crowd, it looks just like an equivalence sign. In the computer world, that’s known as signaling a hamburger menu (see the nearby sidebar).

The new stab at a Start menu is both good and bad. As you’ll see, the left side of the Start menu is a wimpy thing, built according to inflexible rules. If you gnawed away at the Windows 7 Start menu back in the day, you’ll find that there’s very little meat to the new Start menu. Conversely, the Windows 10 Start menu doesn’t get screwed up as easily — or as completely — as the Windows 7 Start menu.

On the right side of the Start menu, you see a vast sea of tiles. Unlike the tiles on your iPhone or iPad or Galaxy, these tiles have some smarts: If prodded, they will tell you things that you might want to know, without opening up the associated app. In this screenshot, you can see a bit of the weather, a news story, a photo, a preview of an email message, and a little peek at the calendar. You also see lots and lots of ads. That’s the Windows tile shtick, and it’s apparent here in all its glory.