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Windows 11 Pro Overview Windows 11
The main part of this announcement was supposed to be a presentation of major user interface changes codenamed Sun Valley. As you know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not come to the market. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 leaks begin. Windows 11 Pro features Windows 11 will get a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number.
And a completely new design is perfect for it
The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update with the code name Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, under this name it was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project flashed on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed information about the new interface style, insiders shared with previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles developed realistic concepts based on all this data. Home and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of every recent version of Windows. Unsurprisingly, in Windows 11, developers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window will be above the bottom bar.
Right angles will disappear, replaced by fillets
Admittedly, these minor changes make the system look much fresher. Judging by information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “insides” of this menu – the updates will affect only 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 the control buttons together – something similar has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island – controls will be in one separate panel, notifications will be in another, and specific elements (like the player) in another separate panel.
There will be a transparent background with a blur everywhere
Indeed, insiders and concept designers do not agree on this issue – some are sure that Microsoft will not change its traditions and keep right angles, while others are sure that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion of fillets. The latter fits the definition of “All New Windows” better – menus alone aren’t enough to make a new design truly new. Fillets are expected to affect virtually everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, the opinions of concept designers differ on this issue as well – some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine with right angles. There is disagreement on the web about the style of window display islands, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows.
A new font that is already displayed
Most of the leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or Explorer. In addition, these effects are even 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 the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased space between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will be condensed. Windows 11 will likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.
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