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This is the latest version of the Windows release, with a new interface and other new features such as the new Microsoft Store, a new personalized feed powered by AI and best-in-class browser performance from Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Chat Teams integrated into the taskbar and more ! What’s new in Windows 11: – Windows 11 will get a completely new design. 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 brand new design is great for that. The giant from Redmond has long been preparing a redesign for the update codenamed Sun Valley (“Valley of the Sun”) – supposedly Windows 11 was under that name. The Sun Valley project has been shining on the network for a long time – Microsoft revealed Regular details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. – Start and system elements will hover above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every newer version of Windows. It is not surprising that the developers will transform it again in Windows 11, but not so much in a functional sense as in a visual sense – the Start window will be above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system look much more updated. Judging by the information on the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of this menu – innovations will affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float and its design will be exactly the same as “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons together – similar has been used for a long time in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island – controls will be on a separate panel, notifications will be on another, and specific elements (like players) on a separate one. – Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced by oblique ones. In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and will keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits better into the definition of “all-new Windows”—floating menus alone aren’t enough to make a new design truly new. The files are expected to affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of concept designers differ – some draw fillets on all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. – There will be transparent background with blur everywhere. There are disagreements on the web about the island style of the window display, the corner design and the menu levitation effect, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the window. The vast majority of design leaks and renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even part 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 implies the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the distance between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will be bold. – New font that is already displayed. Windows 11 will likely use the default Segoe UI Variable responsive font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders. Its advantage is that it is equally suitable for small texts and large inscriptions.