I don't think Microsoft's motivations are to be more Mac-like, more likely convergent design driven by their desire to sell Windows on a variety of different de

I don't think Microsoft's motivations are to be more Mac-like, more likely convergent design driven by their desire to sell Windows on a variety of different device form factors. Something I noticed immediately when using Windows 11 was how much more comfortable the centered taskbar actually is on wide screens. I had used macOS before, but only on laptops where the smaller screen size (and larger proportions of macOS's dock) made this benefit less apparent. I ended up replicating this style in my KDE setups. It seems to me that the age of 32" wide monitors, corners aren't nearly as important as they were back when we were all looking at 9" 512x342 screens.