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The main part of this announcement was the introduction of a significant user interface change, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not be released on the market. Now, as expected, the leak of information about Windows 11 begins. Key features of Windows 11 Enterprise Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to retract its previous statements and continue to abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number.
And a completely new design is excellent for this
The Redmond giant has long been preparing to redesign the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, under this name Windows 11 was. The Sun Valley project has been flashing on the network for a long time – Microsoft has regularly revealed details about the new interface style, insiders have shared previously unknown information, and designers popular among them have drawn realistic concepts based on all this. Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of all recent versions of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11, developers will rework it, 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 will make the system look much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of the menu – the 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 that of the “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons – something similar has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost every mention of the new menu indicates that it will be island-like – the control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and individual elements (for example, a player) on another panel.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere
In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue – some are confident that Microsoft will not change its traditions and adhere to right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the filleting fashion. The latter fits better with the definition of “all-new Windows” – floating menus are not enough for a new design to be considered truly new. Cutouts are expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of concept designers are divided – some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. There are disagreements on the Internet about the island style of displaying windows, the design of corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of windows.
New font, which has already appeared
The vast majority of leaks and design renderings show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even included in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed in parallel with the Sun Valley project for devices with two screens and weak gadgets. The so-called acrylic transparency means applying new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the distance between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will become thicker. Windows 11 will probably use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.