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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 AI-driven news feed and best-in-class browsing performance in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Teams chat integrated into the taskbar, and more other!
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What’s new in Windows 11:
– Windows 11 gets a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and continue to abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is excellent for this. The Redmond giant has been preparing for a long time to redesign the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently Windows 11 was under this name. The Sun Valley project flashed on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details about the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers drew realistic concepts based on all of this.
– Start and system items 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 transform it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window will float above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system look much fresher. Based on information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of the menu – the innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design is completely identical to that of “Start”. The action center is combined with control buttons – something similar has been used for a long time in some other operating systems. Almost every mention of the new menu indicates that it will be island-like – with controls on a separate panel, notifications on another, and individual items (like a player) on another, separate panel.
– Right angles disappear, replaced by fillets. In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue – some trust that Microsoft will not change its traditions and stick to the right angle, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion of filleting. The latter fits better with the definition of “all new Windows” – floating menus isn’t enough to make a new design truly new. Hacks are expected to affect virtually everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of concept designers are divided – some draw fillets in all possible surface elements, others combine them with right angles.
– There will be a transparent, blurred background everywhere. There are disagreements on the web about the island style of window display, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in every window, be it at least the Start menu or the 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 means applying new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the distance between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly be larger, and the page titles will be thicker.
– New font that we have already introduced. Windows 11 will likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which was already released in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders. The advantage is that it is equally suitable for small texts and large inscriptions.