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Windows 11 Enterprise overview

Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was intended to introduce a significant user interface change, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes are borrowed from the Windows 10X skin, and Windows 10X is not coming to the market. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 data leak begins. Key features of Windows 11 Enterprise

Windows 11 gets a completely new look. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to refute its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the completely new design suits it well. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently under this name it was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project flashed online for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new user 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 float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of all the latest versions of Windows. Unsurprisingly, in Windows 11, developers change it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window hovers above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system look much fresher. Based on the information obtained on the Internet, Microsoft does not radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel also floats and has the exact same design as “Start”. The action center is combined with the control buttons – something similar has been used for a long time in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu point to it being an island – the controls are on a separate panel, notifications are on another, and certain elements (like the player) are on another separate panel. Right angles disappear, they are replaced according to the fillets. In reality, insiders and concept designers are divided on this matter – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and remain at right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion of fillets. The latter fits more into the definition of “all new Windows” – just having menus floating around isn’t enough to consider the new look truly new. Fillets are expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even in this matter, the opinions of concept designers differ – some draw fillets on all possible interface elements, others connect them with right angles. There is translucent background and blur everywhere. On the Internet, there is disagreement about the island style of the windows, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. Most of the leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even present in the configuration of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed with two screens and weak devices in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency means the use of new effects when hovering over the elements, as well as increasing the distance between the elements – the areas of the user interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger and the page titles will become thicker. A new font that has already been presented. Windows 11 will likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.