Windows has been with us for almost 40 years. This Microsoft product has become a OS It brings life to millions of computers in homes, offices and universities around the world. Throughout all this time, we have learned that some visual innovations take time to arrive and some old elements remain in the most modern versions.

One of the most visible examples of this fact is seen in Windows 10. The system carried old icons from the Windows 95 era, and Microsoft did not decide to take a step on this issue until 2021. Visual features do not quite match this operating system and remind us of the controversial Windows Vista.

Windows 11 installation screen that doesn’t look like Windows 11

Microsoft recently announced that users of development versions of Windows 11 now have a new “updated installation experience”. The Redmond giant is including this innovation in its efforts to make the design of the operating system “much cleaner and modern.” The functions of the screen do not change, but its aesthetics do.

An interesting thing is that the new clean installation screen of the operating system (the screen we find when we launch the installation program from a USB drive) does not look very modern. Visual features remind us of Windows Vista and seem to convey little of the visual horizon that Windows 11 offers us.

Windows 11 installation screens, then and now

Microsoft presented the innovation with a before and after image. On the left we see the installation screen Windows 11 original, a screen that isn’t entirely new. As we can see in the other image, it is almost identical to Windows 10 with its blue background, middle button and Windows logo.

Windows 10 installation screen

Now Microsoft offers us an installation screen with a white background, which says goodbye to the button in the middle and another button in the lower left corner and allows us to choose between installation, repair and performing unattended installation. If we focus purely on visuals, the window still retains some of the style we found in Windows Vista.

The Redmond giant could take advantage of this opportunity to promote a more noticeable changeWe may have to wait to see something similar to Windows 12. In any case, if you want to try operating systems, you can download build 26040 to evaluate this innovation on a secondary machine or a virtual machine.

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