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Windows 11 Pro Review Windows 11 The main part of this announcement was supposed to be the introduction of major user interface changes called Valley of the Sun. As you know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not enter the market. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 leaks begin. Windows 11 Pro Features Windows 11 will have a completely new design. It’s clear that Microsoft needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the brand new design is perfect for that. The Redmond giant has long been working on an update called Sun Valley (“Valley of the Sun”) – apparently it was intended for Windows 11 with this name. The Sun Valley project has been flickering on the web for a long time, with Microsoft releasing information regularly. about the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circle created realistic concepts based on all this data. Home and system items will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of every latest version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11 the developers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window will be above the bottom bar. True, these minor changes make the system look much fresher. Judging by the network information, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu – the updates will affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float and have the same design as Start. The Action Center will be combined with control buttons, something similar has been used for a long time in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island, with controls in one separate panel, notifications in another, and specific items (like the player) in another separate panel. Steep corners will disappear, replaced by fillets. Indeed, insiders and concept creators are divided on this matter – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and stick to right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter better fits the definition of “all-new Windows”—it’s not enough to shake up the menu to make the new design truly new. The fillet is expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, the opinions of concept creators differ on this issue as well – some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine with right angles. There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. The internet is divided on the style of window display island, corner design and menu levitation effect, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of windows. Most of the leaks and renderings of the design show transparency and blur in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or the browser. Moreover, these effects are present even when installing the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed in parallel with the Sun Valley project for devices with two screens and weak apps. The so-called acrylic transparency means the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spaces between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase, and page titles will be condensed. A new font that is already displayed. Windows 11 will likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.
