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And a completely new design is great for this
This is the latest version of the Windows operating system with a new user interface and other new features such as the new Microsoft Store, a new personalized feed based on AI and the best browser performance in the industry from Microsoft Edge, as well as integrated Microsoft Teams chat in the taskbar and much more. What’s new in Windows 11: – Windows 11 gets a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its previous claims and still do away with Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”); under this name, apparently, there was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project shone on the net for a long time: Microsoft regularly revealed details about the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and well-known designers in their environment drew realistic concepts based on it .
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– Start and system elements float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every current version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11 the developers are redesigning it once again, but not so much in functional terms as in visual terms: the Start window will be located above the bottom bar. We must admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft is not going to radically change the “insides” of this menu: the innovations will affect only the design of the window itself.
– Right angles will disappear and will be replaced by rounded ones
The control panel will also be floating, and its layout will be exactly the same as the “Start” panel. The Action Center will be combined with the control keys; a similar system has been used in some other operating systems for some time. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it is an island: control keys will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and certain elements (like a player) on another separate panel. In fact, insiders and conceptual designers disagree on this point: some are confident that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will maintain the right angle, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the trend of steaks. The latter fits better with the definition of “completely new Windows”: floating menus are not enough to consider a new design as truly new.
– There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere
The roundings are expected to affect practically the entire system, from context menus and system windows to all application windows. True, the opinions of conceptual designers also differ on this issue: some draw roundings on all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. There is disagreement on the network about the display island style of the windows, the corner design and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees about the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of design leaks and renderings show transparency and blurring in all windows, be it at least in the Start menu or Explorer. In addition, these effects are also present in the compilation of the discontinued Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed in parallel with the Sun Valley project for devices with two screens and weak devices.
– New font that has already appeared
The so-called acrylic transparency involves the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as greater spacing between elements: the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the page titles will become thicker. Windows 11 will most likely use the standard responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which is already included in Windows 10 build 21376 for insiders. Its advantage is that it is equally suitable for small texts and large inscriptions.