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Windows 11 Enterprise Overview
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement should be the presentation of a significant UI change codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant portion of the UX changes will be carried over by the Windows 10X shell and Windows 10X will not be launched. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 information leak begins.
Key Features of Windows 11 Enterprise
Windows 11 will get a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to backtrack on its previous claims and yet abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new OS number. And a completely new design is great for that. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, it was under this name that Windows 11 was supposed to be. The Sun Valley project has been flickering on 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.
Start and system elements 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 information from the network, Microsoft is not going to radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations will affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as that of 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 menu – the control keys 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 fillets. In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this point – some are confident that Microsoft will not change its traditions and maintain the right angle, while others are convinced that Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion in 2021. The latter fits better with the definition of “all-new Windows” – just floating menus are not enough to consider a new design truly new. Fillets are expected to affect virtually 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 curves 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 store windows, the design of the corners and the floating effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of leaks and design renderings show transparency and blur 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 distance between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will become thicker.
New font, which has already appeared. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which is already included in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.