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This is the latest version of the Windows operating system with a new interface and other new features such as the new Microsoft Store, a new personalized feed with AI support and the top-notch browsing performance of Microsoft Edge, the chat built into the taskbar from Microsoft Teams and much more!
What’s new in Windows 11:
– Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and discard Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is great for this. The giant from Redmond has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, it was under this designation that Windows 11 was released. The Sun Valley project flashed on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly announced details of the new interface style, insiders shared the previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data.
– Start and system items will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every current version of Windows. Not surprisingly, in Windows 11 the developers are going to redesign it again, although not so much in functional terms as in visual ones – the Start window will float above the bottom bar. We must admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. According to information from the Internet, Microsoft is not going to radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The Control Panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as that of the “Start”. The Action Center will be merged with the control buttons – 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 on a separate bar, notifications on another, and certain elements (like a player) on another separate bar.
– Right angles will disappear and be replaced by rounded ones. In truth, insiders and concept designers disagree on this point – some are confident that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion of fillets. The latter fits better with the definition of “completely new Windows” – just floating menus are not enough for a new design to be considered truly new. Fillets are expected to affect virtually everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, the opinions of concept designers also differ on this issue – some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles.
– A translucent background with blur will be present everywhere. There is disagreement on the web about the island style of the window display, the design of the corners and the floating effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees about the transparency of the 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 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 with the mouse, as well as a larger distance between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will become thicker.
– New font, which has already been shown. Windows 11 will most likely use the standard responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which has already appeared in Windows 10 build 21376 for insiders. Its advantage is that it is equally well suited for small texts and large labels.
