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Windows 11 Enterprise Overview
Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was aimed at introducing a significant change in the user interface, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes were borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, the leak of Windows 11 data begins.

Windows 11 Enterprise Features
Windows 11 is getting 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. A completely new design fits perfectly with this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign of the update under the codename Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – supposedly under this name was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project flashed on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed 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.
Start and system items float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of all the latest versions of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11, developers are changing it again, but not so much functionally, as visually – the Start window floats above the bottom bar. It must be admitted that this small change makes the system look much fresher. According to information from the Internet, Microsoft does not radically change the “inside” of this menu – the innovations concern only the appearance of the window itself. The control panel also floats and has exactly the same appearance as the “Start”. The action center is combined with 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 is an island – the control is located on a separate panel, notifications on another, and some elements (such as the player) are located on another separate panel.
Straight corners disappear, they are replaced by rounded ones. In fact, insiders and concept designers are divided on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will remain at the right angle, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet trend. The latter fits better into the definition of “all-new Windows” – just navigating the menu is not enough for the new look to be considered truly new. The rounding is expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. It is true that even on this issue, the opinions of concept designers differ – some draw roundings on all possible interface elements, others connect them at right angles.
There is a transparent background and blur everywhere. There is no consensus on the Internet about the island style of windows, the design of corners and the effect of menu levitation, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of windows. Most of the leaks and project renders show transparency and blurring in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or Explorer. What’s more, 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 application of new effects when you hover over elements, as well as increasing the distance between elements – the areas of the UI that the user interacts with will certainly increase in size, and the page titles will become thicker .
New font, which has already been presented. Windows 11 will probably use the default, responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.