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Windows 11 Enterprise overview
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement would be a presentation of a major user interface change, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes are borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not be released. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 data leak begins.

Windows 11 Enterprise features
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 been preparing for a long time the redesign of the update of Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently under this name it 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 popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this information.
Home 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, 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 newer. 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 control buttons 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 disagree on this point – 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 better with the definition of “All new windows” – floating menus alone are not enough to make a 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 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 the mouse over the elements and the increased distance between the 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 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.