the start menu has, for the most part, stayed more or less like this, although there were changes in later versions of windows such as windows xp. but for windows 8 (and its follow-up version, windows 8.1), microsoft replaced the menu with a "start screen" that covers the entire screen rather than just part of it. here, programs and files show up as large "tiles" that can show information from the program or the contents of the file without the need to open it. for many people, this was a big change that they did not like as they were used to the older look of the start menu, and so when microsoft designed windows 10, the company brought back this look while keeping the "live tiles" from windows 8.