Coming after six years of ho-hum upgrades, this major overhaul to the look and feel of the world’s most popular desktop operating system gives Windows fans something to get excited about, and earns our Editors' Choice award, alongside Apple's polished macOS Ventura. Many of the updates amount to surface tweaks rather than deep codebase changes, and it still runs all your familiar applications. Despite this fresh design, using Windows 11 doesn't feel drastically different from using Windows 10. With Windows 11, Microsoft boldly changes up its market-leading desktop operating system, giving it a new look featuring a centered Taskbar, rounded window corners, and new translucent textures.

Useful tools are gone: Timeline, some tablet gestures, and Action Center.

Some interface changes like the new Start menu and Taskbar take getting used to.

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