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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 is not being released on the market. Now, as expected, the leak of information about Windows 11 begins. Windows 11 Pro 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 abandon Windows 10, introducing a new operating system number.
And a completely new design is perfect for this
The Redmond giant has long been preparing the design of the update under the codename Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, this is the name under which it was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been flickering 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 in their circle based on all this data. The Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of each recent version of Windows. It is not surprising that in the Windows 11 operating system, the developers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window will hang above the bottom bar.
Rectangles will disappear, they will be 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 design of the window itself. The Control Panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as Start. The Action Center will be combined with control buttons – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island – the control buttons will be in one separate panel, notifications – in another, and specific elements (for example, the player) – in another separate panel.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere
In fact, insiders and concept developers disagree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and stick to right angles, while others – that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter better fits the definition of “completely new windows” – the start menu alone is not enough for the new design to be considered truly new. The fillet is expected to affect practically everything in the system – from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of concept developers differ – some draw fillets on all possible interface elements, while others combine them with right angles. There is disagreement on the Internet about the style of the window display island, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone unanimously agrees on the transparency of the windows.
A new font that has already been shown
The vast majority of leaks and design images show transparency and blurring in all windows, whether it is at least the Start menu or the browser. Moreover, these effects are present 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 means the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spacing between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase, and the names of the pages will be made thicker. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.