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Windows 11 Pro Review
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to be 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 skin, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, Windows 11 leaks are starting.
Windows 11 Pro Features
Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. It is obvious that Microsoft needs a good reason to backtrack on 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 an update project under the codename Sun Valley (Sun Valley), which was apparently called Windows 11. The Sun Valley project flickered on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circle drew realistic concepts based on all this data.
The elements of the home page and the system will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of each latest version of Windows. It is not surprising that in the Windows 11 operating system, the developers will change it again, but not so much functionally, as visually – the Start window will hang 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 – the innovations will only affect the appearance of the window itself. The control panel will also float and will have exactly the same appearance as Start. The action center will be combined with control buttons, similar to what some other operating systems have long used. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island with controls in one separate panel, notifications in another, and specific elements (e.g. the player) in another separate panel.
Rectangles will disappear and will be replaced by rounded shapes. 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 straight angles, while others believe that in 2021 Microsoft will go for the purple fashion. The latter fits better into the definition of a “completely new window” – floating menus alone are not enough to qualify the new design as truly new. The rounding is expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of the concept creators differ – some draw rounded shapes in all possible interface elements, others connect them at right angles.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. The island style of the windows, the design of the corners, and the effect of the floating menu are divided on the Internet, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of leaks and renders of the projects show transparency and blurring in all windows, regardless of whether it is at least the Start menu or the browser. Moreover, these effects are present even when installing the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak applications in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency means the application of new effects when the mouse is hovered over elements, as well as increased spacing between elements – the areas of the interface that the user interacts with will certainly increase, and the titles of pages will be bolded.
A new font that has already been shown. Windows 11 will probably use the default, responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.