Windows 10: Windows 10’s new rounded corners look teased again

With Windows 10 Sun Valley Update, Microsoft will make quite a few changes to the basic design of the operating system. The most noticeable change, affecting your apps, is that the window (container) for Win32 and UWP apps will now feature rounded corners — just like everything else in WinUI-based apps.

Rounded corners are a common part of mobile operating systems, but they’re not something that you’ll easily find on Windows 10. After Windows 10’s launch, all apps, tools and other pages have always used square or rectangular design.

Previous versions of Windows like Windows 7 and Vista have had rounded corners, but the approach changed when Microsoft switched to their ‘Metro’ user interfaces with Windows 8, which relied heavily on straighter look, sharp edges, live tiles, and touch-friendly apps/elements.

Recently, though, Microsoft’s design team decided to ditch sharp corners for rounded corners.

It looks like Microsoft is also planning to change the padding around the minimize, maximize and close window controls, with a new screenshot from Microsoft Build 2021 developer conference keynotes confirming the new look.


Image Courtesy: Microsoft

As you can see in the above mockup, Microsoft is dropping edges on apps like Chromium Ege to replace them with smooth, rounded corners. To improve the rounded corners experience, Microsoft will also modify the padding of minimize, maximize and close window controls.

Microsoft has also posted a mockup of Microsoft Teams and Outlook PWA for Windows with the same rounded edges, padding changes. If you look closely, the corners of the app’s window are rounded.

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The current version of Microsoft Edge, Teams or Outlook features sharp corners, giving it a more formal and modern look. This new look is in contrast to macOS, which also uses rounded corners in its design language.

Context menu with rounded corners


In the preview builds, Microsoft has quietly enabled rounded corners/edges for the context menu (right-click menus) within Windows 10’s Task View.



These modern menus are expected to be widely used in the new UI instead of the classic right-click menus. There’ll be rounded corners for interface panels and menus too, and they gravitate towards a more Mac-like appearance.

As you see in the below concept, Microsoft is also exploring new icons, fonts, and animations for the Windows apps.


Image Courtesy: Twitter

Ahead of the June 24 event, Microsoft’s enterprise apps like Sysinternals tools have already been updated with a code that detects the upcoming OS colours/theme assets.


Image Courtesy: Rafael

It appears that these advanced tools are looking for new system colours, themes and other personalization settings and attempting to rely on assets currently missing from the preview builds of Windows 10.

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How to bring back round window corners on Windows 10?

I like the look of Windows XP, and Windows 7, and like the round corners of the windows of the apps. Windows 10 seems to take a step to remove them and make it 90 degree corners.

Are there ways to bring back the round corners on Windows 10?

 

Round corners

I tried to make my window corners look rounded (by enabling immersive search in registry editor) but the changes didn't appear, and my windows version is 1909.

Any help please?

 

Round Corners

Hi Dhruv

I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this . . .

This cannot be done natively in Windows 10, there is no option to customize the look and feel of Windows, you would need to use one of the Theming utilities like Windows Blinds or StarDock to skin the Windows Interface to have the rounded corners in Windows
10 . . .