Revealed: How Home windows 11’s new Begin menu auto-categorizes your apps

As we’ve beforehand coated, Microsoft is engaged on one other redesign of the Begin Menu in Home windows 11, and one of many new options is that apps might be divided into completely different classes mechanically.

In accordance with Home windows Newest, Microsoft has created a 15 megabyte JSON file with details about which apps ought to find yourself during which class. That’s proper—just about each app on the Microsoft Retailer has been assigned a quantity, with 0 indicating Productiveness apps, 1 indicating Social apps, 2 indicating Artistic apps, and so forth.

As quickly as you’ve gotten not less than three apps that belong to the identical class, they may mechanically be grouped collectively within the new Begin Menu. The rating of the apps will rely upon how usually you employ them, so the apps in a class received’t be sorted in an alphabetical order.

In the intervening time, it doesn’t appear like Microsoft goes to offer us the choice to rename classes or add our personal, so we’ll simply have to simply accept the corporate’s categorization technique… for higher or worse.