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Windows 11 Enterprise Review
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be a 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 still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is perfect for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign of the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – supposedly, Windows 11 was hiding under this name. The Sun Valley project flashed 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 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 hang 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 – 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 island – the control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and certain elements (e.g. the player) on a separate one.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced
by fillets. In fact, insiders and designers of the concept do not agree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will stick to right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion for fillets. The latter fits better into the definition of “all new Windows” – just hovering over the menu is not enough to consider the new design as really new. It is expected that the rounding will affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even in this matter, the opinions of concept designers differ – some draw roundings in all possible interface elements, others connect them at right angles.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. There is a divergence of opinions on the network regarding the island style of displaying windows, the design of corners and the effect of 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 blurring in all windows, at least in the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are present even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for devices with two screens 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 spacing between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase, and the titles of the pages will be bolded.
The new font that 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.