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Windows 11 Pro Introduced
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was to introduce 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, Windows 11 leaks begin.
Windows 11 Pro Features
Windows 11 will have a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to go back on its previous claims and abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the completely new design is ideal for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently Windows 11 has been called this for a long time. The Sun Valley project has been flashing on the network for a long time – Microsoft has regularly revealed details of the project. new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this information.
Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of each new version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11, developers will transform it again, but not so much in a functional sense as in a visual sense – the Start window will float above the bottom bar. We must admit that this small change makes the system look much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu – 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 that of “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons – a similar method has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be insular: commands will be on a separate panel, notifications will be on another, and specific elements (like the player) will be on another separate panel.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced by rounded ones. True, insiders and designers of the concept do not agree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and will keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion for the net. The latter better fits the definition of “all-new Windows”: hover menus alone are not enough to create a truly new design. Nets should affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of designers differ: some draw edges in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. On the web, they disagree about the island style of the showcase, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the window. The vast majority of design leaks and renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even part of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed in parallel with the Sun Valley project for devices with two screens and weak gadgets. The so-called acrylic transparency implies the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the distance between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the titles of the pages will be bold.
A new font already shown. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which already appears in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.