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16/22

Windows 11 Pro Preview Windows 11 The main part of this announcement was the introduction of a significant change to 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, leaks about Windows 11 are starting. Windows 11 Pro Features Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to withdraw its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the new design is perfect for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign of the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – supposedly under this name was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project flashed on the network a long time ago – Microsoft regularly revealed details about the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this information. Startup and system elements will hang above the bottom bar. Start is the calling 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 the functional sense, but in the visual sense – the Start window will float above the bottom bar. It must be admitted that this small change makes the system look much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of this menu – 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 control buttons – similarly, it has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of the new menu indicate that it will be insular – the control will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and specific elements (such as the player) on another separate panel. Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced by roundings. True, experts and concept designers 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 go for the purple fashion. The latter fits better into the definition of “all-new Windows” – the hover menus alone are not enough to make the new design truly new. The files are expected to affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. It is true that even on this issue the opinions of concept designers differ – some draw bevels in all possible interface elements, others connect them at right angles. There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. The network does not agree on the insular style of window exposure, the design of the corners and the effect of menu levitation, but almost everyone is unanimous on the transparency of the window. The vast majority of design leaks and renders show transparency and blurring in all windows, at least in the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects can be found even in the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed in parallel with the Sun Valley project for dual-screen devices and low-end gadgets. The so-called acrylic transparency means 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 increase in size, and page titles will be bolded. The new font, which is already being displayed. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.