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If I were to venture a guess, it’s so that they can use the same start menu in multiple iterations of windows without tinkering (so, for example, they could dump a windows environment onto an xbox as an app). Kind of an ass backwards way of doing so in my opinion, but that’s on-brand for modern microsoft
That makes a bit more sense.