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Windows 11 Enterprise Overview

Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was supposed to 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 borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, the leaks about Windows 11 begin.
Key Features of Windows 11 Enterprise

Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its past claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is perfect for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, this was the name of Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been floating around the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly disclosed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and designers popular in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every recent version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11, developers will transform it again, but not so much functionally as visually: the Start window will float 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 will not radically change the “insides” of this menu – innovations will affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as that of “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons together: a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island: the control buttons will be placed on a separate panel, notifications will be on another, and specific elements (such as a player) on yet another.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced
by fillets. In truth, insiders and concept designers disagree on this point: some are sure that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep the right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the trend of fillets. The latter fits the definition of “completely new Windows” better: moving menus are not enough for a new design to be considered truly new. Fillets are expected to affect practically 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 lines in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere. There is disagreement on the web about the island style of window display, the design of corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of windows. 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 also present in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for devices with two screens and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency involves the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spacing between elements: those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the page titles will be thicker. New font that has already been shown. Windows 11 will most likely use the default Segoe UI Variable responsive font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Insider Build 21376.