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Windows 11 Enterprise Review Windows 11

The main part of this announcement was 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 borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not enter the market. Now, as expected, the leak of information about Windows 11 begins Windows 11 Enterprise features Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. It is clear that Microsoft needs a good reason to retract its previous statements and still get rid of Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is perfect for this.

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The Redmond giant has long been preparing an update called Sun Valley ("Sun Valley"); Apparently, this was the name of Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been shining on the network for a long time: Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers drew realistic concepts based on it in their layers. The launch and system elements will float above the bottom bar. “Start” is the business card and face of each latest version of Windows. It is not surprising that the developers of Windows 11 are transforming it again, but not so much functionally as visually: the Start window will be above the bottom bar.

Rectangles will disappear, replaced by fillets

We must admit 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 “inside” of this menu: the innovations will only affect the layout of the window itself. The Control Panel will also float, and its layout will be exactly the same as the “Start”. The Action Center will be combined with the control buttons; A similar one has been used in some other operating systems for some time. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island: control buttons will be placed on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (for example, the player) on another separate panel.

There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere

In reality, experts and conceptual designers disagree on this issue: some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will maintain right angles, while others believe that Microsoft will follow the steak trend in 2021. The latter is more consistent with the definition of “all-new Windows”: sliding menus are not enough for the new design to be considered truly new. The fillet is expected to affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of conceptual designers differ: some draw fillets on all possible interface elements, while others combine them at right angles. There is disagreement on the Internet about the island style of window display, angular design and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone unanimously agrees on the transparency of windows.

A new font that has already been shown

The vast majority of design leaks and images show transparency and blurring in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or the browser. Moreover, these effects are noticeable even when installing the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for devices with two screens and weak applications 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 increase, and the titles of the pages will be pasted. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.