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Inconsistency. Never really beneficial. And when it comes to the Windows 10 context menu design, the overall aesthetics, inconsistency if perhaps the first thing you notice.

Microsoft tried to tweak their new operating system in the visual sense of things, and somewhat succeeded in offering a fresh new look — a modern interface that users seem to really like, new icons scattered throughout, and all that.

But one area that still has not been addressed is the design of the context menus.

In fact, users have been complaining about a high level of inconsistency across the operating system, particularly when the traditional context menus are concerned.

This screenshot posted on Reddit, for example, perfectly illustrates the problem:

As you can see, the File Explorer alone features three different context menu styles, for no apparent reason, at that. Other than inconsistency, of course.

While the Taskbar and the Start Menu make use of the new dark theme and the menus feature that look. Again, for no apparent reason. Other than the fact that they go well with the overall dark theme that on the returning Start Menu.

Things are also wildly inconsistent in the Edge browser.

Sure, one can say that Microsoft is still trying to find a better look for the context menu, which is a very important UI element of the Windows platform as a whole.

The small changes in the various preview builds are sign enough that the company is trying.

But really, this is not all that hard to figure out.

And many thought that the company might have done so by theThreshold 2 release.

Apparently not.

What do you fine folks make of it? And do you have any favorite style that you want Microsoft to go with and focus on. Or is thing something that simply just doesn’t concern you — as long as things work as they are supposed to?

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