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The main part of this announcement was 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 the Windows 10X environment, and Windows 10X will not come to the market. Now, as expected, information about Windows 11 is beginning to leak. The key features of Windows 11 Enterprise will receive a completely new look. 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 the brand new design is excellent for this
The Redmond giant has long been preparing to redesign the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, this is what Windows 11 was named. The Sun Valley project has been flashing on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly published details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circle drew 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 much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also be floating, and its design will be exactly the same as in the “Start”. The action center will be combined with control buttons – similar ones have long been used by some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of the new menu indicate that it will be island-like – the control buttons will be in one separate panel, notifications in another, and individual elements (for example, the player) in another.
Everywhere there will be a translucent background with a blur
In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue – some believe that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep the right angle, while others believe that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits better into the definition of “all-new Windows” – floating menus alone are not enough to consider a new design truly new. Circles are expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system trays to all application windows. True, even on this issue, designers have different opinions – some draw curves in all possible elements of the interface, 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.
A new font that has already appeared
The vast majority of design leaks and renders 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 dual-screen and weak gadgets. The so-called acrylic transparency means applying new effects when moving elements, as well as increasing the gaps between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will become denser. Windows 11 will probably use the default Segoe UI Variable responsive font, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.