It is confirmed that with Windows 10 21H2 will arrive Sun Valley , the first major redesign that Windows 10 will receive since its launch. The operating system has been making some changes to its interface in recent years, but now a complete redesign will come at once. And there are new leaks that confirm the return of the rounded edges .
Innovating is not always easy. Windows featured right angles on its corners until Windows XP, which introduced curved edges. The curved design was enhanced with Windows Vista and Windows 7, with the introduction of Aero as well . However, everything changed again with Windows 8, 8.1 and 10, which once again had right angles following the Metro design philosophy, with a more modern touch.
A Microsoft worker mistakenly leaks the new interface
However, Microsoft now returns to rounded edges , albeit with a much more subtle curvature. There are already references to these changes in the app code, and now we can begin to see them in some elements of the system in the latest builds, as well as in images leaked by Microsoft itself.
In those images we could see the window for entering the WiFi password and the Settings menu with rounded edges, and a very subtle shadow around it. Now, it has also been leaked what will be the appearance of the PowerShell application , the advanced terminal of Windows 10.
The image had been published by a Microsoft worker, who was in a hurry to delete it. In the image, we clearly see the rounded design in the corners, with a design that could still be subject to further changes and could change some elements.
We will have to wait until the end of May to confirm the new design
It is also confirmed that the start menu will receive these rounded edges, as well as that it will open in a kind of floating window by leaving a small gap between the taskbar and the menu itself, as we could see in a mockup published a few years ago. two months. In addition to the Start Menu, there will also be changes to the Alarms and clock application, Calendar, Mail, Activity Center, Settings, and a long etcetera. Basically all the visual elements of the system are going to be redesigned from scratch.
We will have to wait at least for the next Microsoft Build conference, which will be held between May 25 and 27 of this year. There they will announce all the news that they are going to launch for Windows 10 in the next year, among which will be the great redesign that will reach the most used computer operating system in the world.