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The main part of this announcement was supposed to be a presentation of a significant change to the user interface codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, most of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, information about Windows 11 is starting to leak Windows 11 Pro Features Windows 11 will have a completely new look. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to backtrack on its previous statements and continue to abandon Windows 10 with a new OS number. And the new look is great for this.
Startup and system items float above the bottom bar
The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign of the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently under this name was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been appearing on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and the most famous designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Start is the business card and face of every latest version of Windows. It is no wonder that in Windows 11 developers will transform it again, but not so much in terms of functionality, but visually: the Start window will float above the bottom bar. Of course, this small change makes the system much fresher.
Right angles will disappear and will be replaced by rounded ones
Judging by the information from the Internet, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu: innovations will only affect the appearance of the window itself. The control panel will also be floating, and its appearance will be exactly the same as “Start”. The action center will be combined with control buttons – something similar has been used for a long time in some other operating systems. Almost all references to this new menu indicate that it will be island-like: control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (for example, the player) on yet another. The truth is that insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue: some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep right angles, while others are convinced that Microsoft will follow the rounded trend in 2021.
There will be a transparent background with blurring everywhere
The latter fits the definition of “all new Windows” better: floating menus above the screen alone are not enough for a new design to be considered truly new. Rounding affects practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. It is true that concept designers differ on this issue as well: some draw curves in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. There is disagreement online about the island style for window display, corner design, and the levitating effect of menus, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of windows. The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, at least in the Start menu or Explorer.
A new font that has already been shown
Moreover, these effects are also found in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing in parallel with the Sun Valley project for dual-screen devices and weak gadgets. The so-called acrylic transparency involves the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spacing between elements: the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the page titles will be bolder. Most likely, Windows 11 will use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.
