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26/22
Windows 11 Enterprise Overview Windows 11
The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the presentation of a significant change in the user interface, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from Windows 10X, and Windows 10X is not coming to the market. Now, as expected, the leak of information about Windows 11 begins. Windows 11 Enterprise features Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its previous statements and still give up on Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number.
And a completely new design is great for this
The Redmond giant has been preparing a redesign of the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) for a long time – apparently, it went under this designation Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been flickering on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly published details about the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every latest version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11, developers will reshape it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window will float above the bottom bar.
Right angles will disappear, replaced by fillets
We must admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. Judging by information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “insides” of this menu – innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as in the “Start”. The action center will be combined with control buttons together – similar ones have long been used by some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be island – control buttons will be on one separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (like the player) on another separate one.
There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere
In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this point – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and retain right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits better into the definition of “a completely new Windows” – floating menus alone are not enough for the new design to be considered truly new. It is expected that the curves will affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of designers differ – some draw curves in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. There is disagreement on the web about the island style of displaying windows, corner designs and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the windows.
The new font that has already been shown
The vast majority of leaks and design renderings show transparency and blurring in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even in the build of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for devices with two screens and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency implies the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the gaps between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase in size, and the page headings will become denser. Windows 11 will most likely use the Segoe UI Variable responsive font by default, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.