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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 carried over by the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not be released. Now, as expected, the information leak about Windows 11 begins. Features of Windows 11 Enterprise Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its previous claims and yet abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is great for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – under this name, apparently, Windows 11 was supposed to have been. The Sun Valley project has been circulating on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared the previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Start and system items float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every current version of Windows. Not surprisingly, in Windows 11 the developers are going to redesign it again, but not so much in functional terms as in visual terms – the Start window floats above the bottom bar. We must admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft is not going to radically change the “inside” of this 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 the “Start”. The Action Center will be merged with the control keys – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island – the control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and certain elements (like a player) on another separate panel. Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced by roundings. In fact, insiders and concept designers do not agree on this point – some are confident that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will preserve the right angle, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits better with the definition of “completely new Windows” – just floating menus are not enough to consider a new design truly new. Fillets are expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system windows to all application windows. True, the opinions of concept designers also differ on this issue – some draw roundings in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere. There is disagreement on the Internet about the island style of the storefronts, the design of the corners and the floating effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees about the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of leaks and design renderings show transparency and blurring in all windows, be it at least in the Start menu or Explorer. In addition, these effects are also in the composition of the discontinued Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed in parallel with the Sun Valley project for devices with two screens and weak devices. The so-called acrylic transparency implies the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as a larger spacing between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will become thicker. New font that has already appeared. Windows 11 will most likely use the standard responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which is already included in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.
