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Windows 11 Enterprise Overview
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be a presentation of a major 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 shell, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, the leak of information about Windows 11 begins.
Windows 11 Enterprise Key Features
Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to go back on its past claims and abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is ideal for this. 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 leaked 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 will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every recent version of Windows. Not surprisingly, in Windows 11, developers will transform it again, but not so much in functional terms as in visual terms – the start window will float above the bottom bar. It must be admitted that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interiors” of this menu – 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 combined with the control buttons together – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be insular – the control buttons will be located on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (like a player) on another separate one.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced
by fillets. In truth, insiders and concept designers do not agree on this – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep the right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion for fillets. The latter better fits the definition of “completely new Windows” – just hovering over the menus is not enough for a new design to be considered truly new. The nets should affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of concept designers differ – some draw nets 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 Web about the style of displaying island windows, the design of corners and the effect of levitating the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of windows. The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are present even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for dual-screen devices and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. 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 thickened.
New font that has already been shown. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.