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Windows 11 Pro overview
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the introduction of a major user interface change, 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 come to the market. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 leaks begin.
Windows 11 Pro features
Windows 11 will get a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its previous claims and still get rid of Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the brand new design is perfect for that. The Redmond giant has long been preparing an update redesign codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”); Apparently, Windows 11 was hidden under this name. The Sun Valley project appeared on the network for a long time: Microsoft regularly revealed the details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles based on it drew realistic concepts in all this data.
The Start menu and system items will float above the bottom bar. The Start menu is the calling card and face of every latest version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11 the developers will transform it again, but not so much from a functional point of view as from a visual point of view: the Start window will float above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system much fresher. Judging by 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 in “Start”. The action center will be combined with control buttons; A similar one has long been used in other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island: the control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific items (such as the player) on another separate one.
Right angles disappear, replaced by fillets. In fact, experts and conceptual designers do not agree on this point: some believe that Microsoft will not change its traditions and keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the steak trend. The latter fits the definition of “brand new Windows” better: the floating menus are not enough for the new design to be considered truly new. Rounding is expected to affect virtually the entire system, from context menus and system trays to all application windows. It is true that even on this issue, the opinions of conceptual designers differ: some draw curves on all possible elements of the interface, others combine them with right angles.
There will be a translucent background with a blur everywhere. There is disagreement on the web about the island style of the window display, the corner design and the menu levitation effect, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of design leaks and renders show transparency and blur in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or Explorer. In addition, these effects are also found in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency involves the use of new effects when passing over elements, as well as increasing the gaps between elements: the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page headings will become denser.
A new font that has already been displayed. Windows 11 will most likely use the default Segoe UI Variable responsive font that already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.