14 DAY TRIAL // Fluent Design is spearheading Microsoft’s visual facelifts across a series of products, including Windows 10, and one of the latest ideas that the company seems to be more and more interested in could bring rounded corners to the operating system.
The idea of an improved design with rounded corners instead of sharp ones in Windows 10 isn’t new, and Microsoft has previously been spotted testing such an experiment in the search UI of the operating system.
But now it looks like the software giant is also looking into ways to bring the rounded corners to the Start menu.
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A teaser that the company itself posted on its Microsoft Tips website, and which was spotted recently by WL, shows that Microsoft has already prepared part of this visual overhaul for the Start menu. Right-clicking an app in the Start menu, for example, launches a context menu that features rounded corners.
The tiles in the back also seem to come with a similar design approach, and so does the search box that’s integrated into the taskbar.
Officially, Microsoft has remained completely tight-lipped on its transition to rounded corners in Windows 10, but all these signs seem to suggest that a migration in this direction is just a matter of time now.
The next feature update for Windows 10 that could make the whole thing happen is version 20H2 due in the fall, but before this change takes place, it must first debut in the preview builds shipped to users enrolled in the Windows Insider program.
Needless to say, the rounded corners in the Start menu are still nowhere to be seen in Windows 10 builds available for users, so if Microsoft is indeed working on this visual update, expect it to make its way to the Insider program rather sooner than later.