Start menu

Start Screen is the Start menu replacement introduced in Windows 8.

Compared to the traditional Start menu, Start Screen was based on Metro UI, was specifically designed for touch devices, had no links for documents, pictures, music etc. and used a tile interface similar to Windows Phone. Search and Power buttons didn't exist at first but it was later re-added in Windows 8.1 Update 1.

Start Screen later turned into a Tablet Mode-only start menu in Windows 10 in favor of Start menu's return, however the tile interface stayed to exist in the new XAML Start menu to this day.