28/19
Windows 11 Pro Overview
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 reverse its previous statements and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the brand new design is great for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently Windows 11 was under this name. The Sun Valley project has been appearing on the network for a long time – Microsoft has regularly revealed the details of this new interface style, insiders have shared previously unknown information, and the most famous designers in their circles have drawn realistic concepts based on all this information.
The Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every 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 much fresher. Judging by the information coming from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu – innovations will affect only 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 the control buttons – similar ones have been used for a long time in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be insular: controls will be on a separate panel, notifications will be on another, and specific elements (such as the player) on another separate panel.
Right angles will disappear and will be replaced by rounding. True, insiders and concept designers disagree 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 of the fillet. The latter fits the definition of “completely new Windows” better: hover menus alone are not enough to make a new design truly new. The files are expected to affect almost everything in the system, from context menus to system panels to all application windows. True, on this issue too, the opinions of concept designers differ: some draw borders in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles.
There will be a transparent background with a blur everywhere. There is disagreement on the web 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 showcase. The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, at least in the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are also 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 involves the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the distance between elements: those 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 displayed. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.
