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The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the introduction 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 be released. Now, as expected, Windows 11 leaks begin. The main features of Windows 11 Enterprise Windows 11 will have a completely new design. It is clear that Microsoft needs a good reason to withdraw its previous statements and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new OS number.

And the brand 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), which apparently was the name of 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 famous designers in their circle drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Home and system elements float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every latest version of Windows. It is not surprising that in the Windows 11 operating system, developers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually: the Start window will hang above the bottom bar.

Rectangles will disappear, replaced by fillets

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 only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also be floating and will have exactly the same design as Start. The Action Center will be combined with control buttons, similar to those used by other operating systems for a long time. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island, with controls in a separate panel, notifications in another, and specific elements (such as the player) in another separate panel.

There will be a transparent background with a blur everywhere

In fact, insiders and concept creators are divided on this issue, with some convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and will stick to right angles, while others believe that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the splice fashion. The latter fits the definition of “all new Windows” better: the Start menus alone are not enough to qualify a new design as truly new. The splice is expected to affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, on this issue too, the opinions of the creators of the concept differ: some draw splices in all possible interface elements, others combine them at right angles. There is disagreement on the Internet about the island style of windows, the design of corners and the levitation effect of menus, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of windows.

A new font that has already been shown

The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, at least in the Start menu or browser. In addition, these effects are also present when installing the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak apps in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency involves the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spaces between elements: those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase, and page titles will be thickened. Windows 11 will probably use the default Segoe UI Variable responsive font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.