Windows 11 is real. Although there is still more than a week until Microsoft officially presents its new operating system, yesterday afternoon an ISO Insider appeared on the network that allows us to have a first contact with this new operating system. And the truth is that, although Microsoft still has a lot of time to debug and add functions within its OS, after testing the new update thoroughly there have been things that we expected to see, but, nevertheless, we have missed.
The first thing that strikes us about Windows 11 is how much it resembles Windows 10. Obviously, Microsoft has taken one of the latest Insider versions from Sun Valley and applied a layer of customization on top of it. This layer, by the way, is clearly inspired by Windows 10X. We hope that the fusion of functions and features goes well and was not done by force.
It is true that, although below they are two very similar systems, in use it is a different system, just as the company promised. But, after what the company promised us, the truth is that we expected to see more changes and novelties in this new Windows than we really already have available.
Where are the round corners?
Of course, one of the main novelties that was going to make a difference with this operating system was going to be its new interface. It is true that this has changes, and we even have a new start menu (inherited from 10X) that is already generating controversy. But there is one little detail that we have missed from the get-go: the rounded corners.
Microsoft showed screenshots of its operating system where all the windows had round corners and a kind of shading that made the system look much more modern and fresh. However, in this first ISO all windows still have square corners. Only the new start menu shows us these rounded corners.
There are tricks to enable round corners throughout the system, just like in the latest Insider versions of Windows, but why aren’t they enabled by default?
No new file explorer in Windows 11
Another of the promised novelties that we miss is the UWP file explorer . Although it is true that this has never been confirmed by Microsoft itself, concepts have been seen of how Microsoft was working on a Fluent Design version of its file explorer. Unfortunately, we don’t know anything else about this explorer.
The file explorer that is included in this new image of Windows 11 is the same that we can find in the latest Windows 10 update, but with new icons. An important absence if we expected to find a new interface.
New backgrounds, but missing Spotlight and dynamic backgrounds
What Microsoft has changed are the default wallpapers of its operating system. This time, Microsoft has dropped the classic backgrounds with the Windows logo and created a new background based on abstract 3D figures and landscapes. In total, Windows 11 comes with 5 wallpapers of its own, and the normal background can be switched between light and dark. But what we do miss in this OS is the ability to change the background automatically using Spotlight.
The latest Insider builds let us see the possibility of using Spotlight to have a different wallpaper every day. However, this new build of Windows 11 no longer shows this option. The same goes for the dynamic funds that we expected to see in this system. These funds, which are succeeding on macOS and Linux, remain unavailable in Windows 11.
The only thing we have, as in 10, are themes with various backgrounds. But nothing to do with the dynamic themes of other OSs.
