It's been about a month since Microsoft last updated the Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview. A new build is now available on the Fast ring, bringing it to number 10536.1004.

As usual, the build offers a bunch of functional improvements (such as new voice input languages and one-handed mode support for all phones regardless of size), fixes for things broken in older builds (such as mobile hotspot functionality), and new bugs of its own (especially for the Lumia 1020; read Microsoft's blog for all the details).

The new Windows 10 Photos app was updated a couple of weeks ago, and an even newer version is included with the new operating system build. This updated app marks a gratifying about turn by Microsoft. Earlier builds of the app sported hamburger menus for accessing most of the application's features. This drew widespread criticism from the community for a whole host of reasons.

Hamburger menus, after a brief period of popularity, are increasingly reviled. A/B testing suggests that app users don't like them much at all. Items tucked away in the menu might as well not exist, and even when a menu is necessary, some devs have found that a simple button with the word "menu" on it is much more effective. Moreover, Windows Phone already offered good application navigation solutions with its pivots (providing visibility to the different parts of an app that hamburger menus discard) and its bottom-anchored menu bar (such that when a menu is necessary it's conveniently within reach of one-handed users).

The introduction of hamburger menus in Windows 10 Mobile previews was seen as the worst kind of capitulation. Microsoft was discarding parts of the Windows Phone interface that worked well in favor of something that's more common but less good. This change was seen as a kind of "me-tooism," but making it worse, Apple has been telling devs not to use hamburger menus. While Google doesn't go that far, its design guidelines still say that primary navigation should go in a tab bar rather than hidden in the hamburger.

Hamburgers still rear their delicious but unwelcome heads in other Windows 10 apps—Maps uses a hamburger menu, for example—but this change suggests that Microsoft is listening and, more importantly, that Windows 10 Mobile won't necessarily sacrifice the things that gave Windows Phone a strong visual identity.