It’s official, the gold medal-winning Windows 11 feature is...

The greatest feature of Windows 11’s massive redesign is the new rounded corners the interface sports activities, or that’s the results of a current vote.

The Twitter account for the Windows Dev Center held the ballot in a knockout stage vogue, the place numerous UI upgrades have been pitted in opposition to one another in a series of votes, the place the winner progressed to the subsequent spherical, and the eventual ultimate.

That ultimate ended up being between the new rounded corners for home windows, which got here up in opposition to the revamped snap controls to permit for simpler and extra handy multi-tasking of apps.

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And certainly it was a detailed run factor, however rounded corners got here out on prime with a 54% share of the vote.

On its method by way of to the ultimate, Microsoft’s rounded corners dispatched refreshed icons in the first spherical, and simply disbursed with the new – and undoubtedly admired – background artwork in the semi-final (securing 75% of the vote in the latter case).

On the different aspect of the bracket, snap controls beat widgets in the first spherical after which outdid pinned apps to advance to the ultimate.

Analysis: a victory for the superficial?

Rounded corners of home windows, dialog packing containers and menus may appear a slightly superficial winner of the competitors to search out the greatest interface change in Windows 11, however it does have a reasonably large impact on the general look of the working system. We personally assume that it’s a kind of modifications that sounds small, however really has a much bigger affect than imagined on making Windows seem like a extra fashionable OS general (or certainly extra Mac-like).

That stated, there are some of us who dislike the rounded look, however as with all UI change, there are going to be detractors on the market someplace. Of course, snap controls are a much more sensible UI refinement, and fairly niftily applied in Windows 11 as we’ve seen, providing a tangible boon to multi-tasking and dealing with a number of apps typically.

So, it’s not stunning, then, that the ultimate vote was a fairly close-run factor, and we additionally should do not forget that removed from everyone snaps apps into place on their desktop, too.