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Windows 11 Enterprise Review
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the presentation of a significant UI change 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 receive a completely new look. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to back down from its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new OS number. And a completely new look is great for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a new look for the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, under this name it was 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 in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Start and system items will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and the face of every recent 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 appearance of the system much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of this menu – innovations will only affect the appearance of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its appearance will be exactly the same as the “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 island – the control buttons will be located on one separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (for example, the player) on yet another.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced
by roundings. The truth is that insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the curves trend. The latter fits better into the definition of “all-new Windows” – floating menus alone are not enough for the new design to be considered truly new. The curves are supposed 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 concept designers differ – some draw curves in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles.
There will be a transparent background with blurring everywhere. There is disagreement on the network about the island style of displaying windows, the design of corners and the effect of levitating menus, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of windows. The vast majority of leaks and project renders show transparency and blurring in all windows, whether at least in the Start menu or in Explorer. Moreover, 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 increased spacing between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will be bolded.
New font, which has already been shown. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.