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Overview of Windows 11 Enterprise
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the presentation of a major user interface change, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X environment, and Windows 10X is not coming to the market. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 leak begins.
Key features of Windows 11 Enterprise
Windows 11 will get a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its previous claims and continue to reject Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the brand new design is great for that. The giant from Redmond has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – it seems that under this name Windows 11 has been on the network for a long time – the Sun Valley project. 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.
Startup and system items will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every latest version of Windows. It is no surprise that in Windows 11, the developers will reshape it again, but not so much from a functional point of view, as from a visual point of view – the Start window will move above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system much fresher. Judging by the information on the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu – the 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 in “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons together – something similar has been used for a long time in other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu suggest that it will be an island – controls will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific items (like the player) on another.
Right angles disappear, they are replaced
through the fillet. Insiders and concept designers do not really agree on this point – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the trend of fillets. The latter fits the definition of “all-new Windows” better – the drop-down menus alone aren’t enough to consider the new design truly new. Tabs are expected to affect virtually everything in the system, from context menus and system trays to all application windows. It is true that even on this issue the opinions of designers differ – some draw curves in all possible elements of the interface, others combine them with right angles.
There will be a translucent background with a fade. There is disagreement on the web about the style of the display island, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of design leaks and renders show transparency and fading in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency includes the use of new effects when passing over elements, as well as increasing the gaps between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will be bold.
A new font that has already been displayed. Windows 11 will most likely use the default Segoe UI Variable responsive font that already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.