In response to the most recent Statcounter figures for Home windows desktop market share by model, Home windows 10 continues to be probably the most broadly utilized by a protracted shot. Over 64 % of Home windows customers are nonetheless on Home windows 10, with Home windows 11 customers lagging behind at round 31 %.

So, though Microsoft clearly needs to push Home windows 10 customers to Home windows 11, the corporate nonetheless has nice incentive to maintain engaged on the older model (regardless of ending official help quickly).

Quite a lot of that work appears centered on the Home windows 10 Begin menu. It’s the place Microsoft retains putting adverts for his or her different services, to the purpose the place the Begin menu is beginning to really feel like a billboard.

But it surely’s not all adverts. Actually, Microsoft does make helpful modifications sometimes — together with this newest one.

As reported by Home windows Newest, Microsoft is now testing new layouts for the Home windows 10 Begin menu, significantly with regard to the Microsoft 365 account supervisor: there’s a brand new icon within the Begin menu’s sidebar (an identical change to 1 that Home windows 11 customers noticed a number of updates in the past).

For those who click on on this new icon for the Microsoft 365 account supervisor, you possibly can simply swap backwards and forwards between totally different Microsoft 365 accounts and native Home windows accounts. You even have speedy entry to choices like Change account settings, Lock, and Signal out, plus entry to Microsoft 365 and OneDrive.

There’s no obvious approach to disable the Microsoft 365 account supervisor within the Begin menu, and there’s no choice to deactivate the fixed nagging to improve to a paid Microsoft 365 subscription.

Finally, Microsoft’s intention with this alteration is to place their numerous services on the forefront in distinguished spots, to hopefully persuade you (or put on you down sufficient) to purchase and improve.

Whereas these Home windows 10 Begin menu modifications are at present nonetheless in testing, Home windows Newest expects that the final Home windows 10 public will get the brand new Microsoft 365 account supervisor integration quickly sufficient.

Additional studying: Hey everybody, it’s time to improve to Home windows 11