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This is the latest version of the Windows operating system releases, with a new user interface and other new features, such as the new Microsoft Store, a new personal feed powered by artificial intelligence, and best-in-class browser performance through Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Chat Teams. integrated into the taskbar and more!
What’s new in Windows 11:
– Windows 11 gets a completely new look. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse 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 this name was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project shone on the Internet for a long time – Microsoft regularly released details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information and designers popular 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. Not surprisingly, in Windows 11, the developers changed it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window is above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system look much more updated. Based on the information on the network, Microsoft does not radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel is also floating and its design is exactly the same as “Start”. The function center is combined with the control buttons – something similar has been used in some other operating systems for a long time. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island – the controls are located in a separate panel, notifications are in another, and certain elements (such as the player) are in a separate panel.
– Straight corners disappear, they are replaced by fillets. In fact, insiders and concept designers differ on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and keep straight corners, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits more into the definition of “all new Windows” – floating menus alone are not enough to make the new look truly new. The files 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 a translucent background and blur everywhere. There are disagreements on the Internet about the island style of the window screen, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. Most design leaks and 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 the distances between the added 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. Its advantage is that it is suitable for small texts as well as large ones.