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The main part of this announcement should be the presentation of a significant change in the user interface codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes will be inherited by the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not be released. Now, as expected, information about Windows 11 is beginning to leak. Features of Windows 11 Pro Windows 11 will have a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new number for the operating system.

And a completely new design is great for this

The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – allegedly under this name the Sun Valley project has been flickering on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly gave details about it, the new interface style became known, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. The startup and system items hover above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of every recent version of Windows. It is not surprising that developers will redesign it again in Windows 11, although not so much in functional terms as in visual terms – the Start window will float above the bottom bar. We must admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher.

Right angles will disappear and will be replaced by curves

According to information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu – innovations affect only the design of the window itself. The Control Panel will also float and its design will exactly match the “Start” one. . The Action Center is combined with control buttons – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu suggest that it will be an island – the control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and certain items (like players) on another separate one.

There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere

True, insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and retain right angles, while others are convinced that Microsoft will follow the trend of curves in 2021. The latter fits better into the definition of “completely new Windows” – floating menus alone are not enough for the new design to be considered truly new. Curves are expected to affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. However, the opinions of concept designers also differ on this issue – some draw curves in all possible UI elements, others combine them with right angles. There are disagreements on the web about the island style of the storefront, the design of the corners and the floating effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the storefront.

The new font that has already been shown

The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even included in the assembly 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 implies the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as a larger gap between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase, and the page titles will become thicker. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.