Since its inception, Windows 10 has been filled with Live Tiles (dozens of squares in the Windows 10 Start menu that automatically populate with news and information). At least that's what a new report tells us.

This early Windows 10 Start menu obituary comes from "Windows Latest," which claims that "Microsoft plans to replace Live Tiles with icons," citing a person close to the software's development. The first time we saw Windows without Live Tiles was in Windows 10X, a variant of Windows used in the two-screen Surface Neo.

As someone who always removes Live Tiles when using a PC or testing a laptop, I welcome this change in the Start menu. These informative micro-windows first appeared in the Windows Phone OS and were designed to deliver information at a glance.

According to Windows Latest sources, this change will take place after Windows 10 20H2, which is scheduled for release this fall between October and November 2020.

We first saw signs of this icon-heavy version of the Windows 10 Start menu last July, when photos of a really large icon and a Start menu without live tiles were first leaked. Then later, an image of the new Windows icon was published on the Italian tech blog Aggiornamenti Lumia. In that post, the Start menu showed no live tiles and new icons (many of which had color-matched backgrounds).

That Microsoft is redesigning Windows icons has been known since last December, when John Friedman, VP of Design and Research, posted on Medium's blog detailing plans to redesign "over 100 icons with new colors, materials and finishes."

The plan to revamp the site was known when John Friedman, VP of Design Research, posted details of his plan to revamp "more than 100 icons with new colors, materials, and finishes" on the Medium blog.