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Windows 11 Enterprise Overview
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the introduction 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 the Windows 10X skin, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, Windows 11 leaks begin.
Key features of Windows 11 Enterprise
Windows 11 will have a completely new design. It is clear that Microsoft needs a good reason to retract its previous statements and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the new design is perfect for that. The Redmond giant has long been preparing the design of the update under the codename Sun Valley (Sun Valley), which was apparently the name of Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been floating around the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data.
The start page and system items will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of all the latest versions of Windows. It is not surprising that in the Windows 11 operating system the developers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window will hang above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system look much more up-to-date. Judging by the information on the network, Microsoft is not going to radically change the «insides» of this menu – the innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float and will have exactly the same design as Start. The Action Center will be combined with control buttons, similar to those that some other operating systems have used for a long time. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island, with controls in a separate panel, notifications in another, and specific items (such as the player) in yet another separate panel.
The steep angles will be gone, they will be replaced by
the fillet. In fact, insiders and concept creators are divided on this issue, with some convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and will stick to the right angles, while others believe that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits better with the definition of “all new Windows” – the Start menus alone are not enough to qualify a new design as truly new. The fillet is 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 the creators of the concept differ – some draw fillets on all possible interface elements, others combine them at right angles.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. The island style of windows, the design of corners and the levitation effect of the menu are divided on the Internet, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or the browser. Moreover, these effects are present even in the installation of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak applications in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency means the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spaces between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase, and the page titles will become thicker.
A new font that has already been shown. Windows 11 will likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.