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Windows 11 Enterprise Overview
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be 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 hit the market. Now, as expected, information about Windows 11 is starting to leak.
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 abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is perfect for that. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign of the update under the codename Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – supposedly, Windows 11 was under this name. The Sun Valley project has been appearing on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, industry insiders shared previously unknown information, and designers popular in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of each latest version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11, developers will transform it again, but not so much in terms of functionality, but visually: the Start window will float above the bottom bar. It must be admitted that this small change makes the system look much cooler. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of this menu – the innovations will only affect the appearance of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as in the case of the “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of the new menu indicate that it will be an island: the control buttons will be placed on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (e.g. the player) on yet another.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced
with armatures. In fact, industry experts and concept designers do not agree on this issue: some are sure that Microsoft will not change its traditions and keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the purple trend. The latter fits better into the definition of the “all new Windows”: floating menus are not enough for the new design to be considered truly new. Threads are expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. It is true that even on this issue, the opinions of the concept designers differ: some draw lines in all possible interface elements, others connect them with right angles. There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. There is no consensus on the Internet about the island style of window exposure, the design of the corners and the effect of the levitation of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of leaks and renders of the projects show transparency and blur in all windows, at least in the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are also present 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 means the application of new effects when the mouse is hovered over elements, as well as an increase in the spacing between elements: the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the titles of the pages will be thicker. The new font, which has already been shown. Windows 11 will most likely use the default, responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.