[NeedMoreTea]

I'm sure my brain had another sentence that never made it to keyboard when I was writing that, as I've given completely the wrong impression, opposite to intended. No idea what I was thinking. :)

Comet windows did have rounded corners, as seen in the wreckage photo, similar to the 707's and others. The cause was stress at rivet holes and lack of strength in those areas. After strengthening it had oval windows. The popular view continues to believe the cause was windows with corners.

[na85]

I believe you're correct, but they did also find that the magnitude of stress concentrations around the windows were much higher than design analysis predicted.