The new Start menu doesn’t look much like the one that debuted with Windows 95 two decades ago, but it does pretty much the same thing—it’s a place to find and open apps and files.

Windows 10 users may see other changes include a floating design for the jump list menu on the taskbar, Start Menu, flyouts, and Action Center.

August 24, 1995: Windows 95 was the first version to implement the Start menu, a welcome change from the Program Manager. Wikimedia Commons ...

The Sun Valley update will also refresh the Start Menu, Action Center, and legacy interfaces like the File Explorer. Copy dialogs and other pieces of the interface should also look more consistent ...

As Microsoft turns 50, we're looking at the Start menu's changes from its debut in Windows 95, passing through 98, ME, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11.

In Windows 8, the Start menu is no longer what it used to be. Dong Ngo/CNET Back in the '90s, after years of having fun with MS DOS' command prompts, I was told that the Windows operating system ...