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This is the latest version of the Windows operating system, with a new user interface and other new features, such as the new Microsoft Store, a new personalized feed with AI and improved Microsoft Edge browser performance, Microsoft Teams chat integrated into the taskbar and much more!
What’s new in Windows 11:
– Windows 11 has 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 fits well with this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update under the code name Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently under this name was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been appearing online for a long time – Microsoft has regularly revealed details of With the new interface style, insiders have shared previously unknown information and the most famous designers in their circles have drawn realistic concepts based on all this information.
– Startup and system items float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of all the latest versions of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11 the developers changed it again, but not so much functionally as visually: the Start window is located above the bottom bar. We must admit that this small change makes the system much fresher. Based on information on the network, Microsoft does not radically change the “interior” of this menu: the innovations concern only the design of the window itself. The control panel is also floating and has the exact same design as “Start”. The function center is combined with control buttons – something similar has long been used in other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it is an island: the controls are in a separate panel, notifications are in another, and some elements (such as the player) are in another separate panel.
– Straight corners disappear and are replaced by fillets. In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this: some are sure that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will remain at right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the trend of fillets. The latter fits the definition of “all new Windows” more: just having floating menus is not enough to consider the new look truly new. Fillets are expected to affect almost 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 and blurry background everywhere. There is disagreement on the Internet about the island style of windows, the design of corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of windows. Most leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, at least in the Start menu or Explorer. In addition, these effects are also 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 involves the use of new effects when hovering over elements and a greater distance between elements: the areas of the user interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the page titles will be thicker.
– A new font has already been presented. Windows 11 will probably use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders. Its advantage is that it is suitable for both small and large texts.