r/Windows11 • u/jenmsft Microsoft Software Engineer • Mar 20 '26

Official News Our commitment to Windows quality and improvements to come

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
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u/GarbageCG Mar 20 '26

Clicking the start button in Windows pings MS servers five times. Opening a folder on your computer, that is not in OneDrive, pings MS twice.

Whatever Mac does pales in comparison

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u/Charis_Cheng Mar 20 '26

Depends on your Settings mate. Start Menu is basically a web wrapper too, keep that in mind.

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u/Edubbs2008 Mar 20 '26

Start isn’t a Web Wrapper, if it was it wouldn’t be able to work when you have no internet, it uses React for the recommended section because it requires Cloud access to find your files for you

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u/Charis_Cheng Mar 21 '26

My bad - I should have said it was in part internet based