Windows 10’s bringing plenty of new features to its users, including the overhauled Start menu that makes working on the desktop much easier with a mouse and keyboard, but it turns out that Redmond is also removing some of the options that were previously available in Windows 8.1.

Start menu layout and app synchronization will no longer be available in Windows 10, which means that, if you are running the operating system on multiple devices and you’re using the same account, your Start menu settings are no longer transferred from one device to another.

Only few people using them

In Windows 8.1, users were able to install one app on one device and then have it show up on another one by simply logging in with the same account, but this feature will be removed in Windows 10, Microsoft says. The reason is the new store that includes apps for all devices, so it should be easier for users to find the apps they need.

“With Windows 8.1 and initial Windows 10 feedback we found that customers typically want to personalize the Start layout to match the device they are using. With the new Windows Store, scalability of universal Windows apps is fully supported across all of your devices. This means that customers can get their apps and settings available across all of their devices and still create custom Start tile layouts that make the most sense for each device and screen size,” the company said in a statement for WinSupersite.

While Microsoft’s reason pretty much makes sense, some say that Microsoft should let users decide how they want Windows 10 to synchronize data, especially because many found these app sync features very helpful.

But Redmond says that telemetry data indicated that only few people actually used such sync features, so it doesn’t make sense to develop them for Windows 10 since interest is dropping.