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The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the 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 environment, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, leaks about Windows 11 Windows 11 Enterprise features Windows 11 will have a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its previous statements and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the new design is great for that.

Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar

The Redmond giant has been preparing a redesign of the update with the codename Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) for a long time – apparently, it received this designation from Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been flashing on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly published 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 is the calling card and face of all the latest versions of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11 the developers will redesign it again, but not so much functionally as visually - the Start window will float above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system look much more modern.

Right angles will disappear and be replaced by fillets

Judging by the information on the network, Microsoft will not radically change the "insides" of this menu - the innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also become floating, and its design will be exactly the same as that of "Start". The action center will be combined with the control buttons - similar buttons have long been used by some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu suggest that it will be insular - the control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (such as the player) on another separate panel. In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this point – some believe that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will stick to right angles, while others believe that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion for fillets.

There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere

The latter fits better into the definition of “all-new Windows” – floating menus alone are not enough to consider the new design truly new. The rounds are expected to affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system trays to all application windows. True, even on this issue the opinions of designers differ – some draw curves on all possible elements of the interface, others combine them with right angles. There are disagreements on the web about the island style of displaying windows, rendering corners and levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the 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.

A new font that has already been shown

In addition, these effects are even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for dual-screen devices and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency means the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the spaces between elements - those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the page titles will become denser. Windows 11 will probably use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font that already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.