Includes Windows 11 Features Windows 11 will have a completely new design
Windows 11 Overview Windows 11, 24H2, also known as Windows 11 2024 Update, is now generally available via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update for Business. Today marks the start of 36 months of support for the Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 11 24H2. We recommend that you begin a targeted deployment in your organization now to ensure that your applications, devices, and infrastructure are working as expected with the new release. To help you plan, this post describes some of the features and improvements that will help you deliver a great experience and protect your company’s data, apps, and people on any device. Windows 11, 24H2, includes all the features and capabilities that were delivered as part of ongoing Windows 11 updates, now enabled by default.
And the brand new design is perfect for this
It’s clear that Microsoft needs a good reason to walk back its previous claims and abandon Windows 10 anyway by introducing a new operating system number. The Redmond giant has long been preparing the design of the update codenamed Sun Valley (Sun Valley), which was apparently the name of Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been flickering on the network for a long time: Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and famous designers in their circle drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Home and system elements float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every latest version of Windows.
We must admit that this small change makes the system much fresher
It is not surprising that the programmers of Windows 11 will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually: the Start window will hang above the bottom bar. Judging by the information coming from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu: innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also be floating and will have exactly the same design as Start. The Action Center will be combined with control buttons, similar to those that other operating systems have long used. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island, with controls in a separate panel, notifications in another, and specific elements (such as the player) in another separate panel.
Rectangles will disappear, replaced by fillets
Indeed, insiders and concept creators are divided on this issue, with some convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and stick to right angles, while others believe that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits the definition of “brand new windows” better: the Start menu alone is not enough to make a new design truly new. The fillet is 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 the creators of the concept differ: some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine them at right angles. There will be a transparent background with a blur everywhere.
The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, at least in the Start menu or browser
There is disagreement on the Internet about the island style of windows, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menus, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. Moreover, these effects are also present during the installation of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak apps in parallel with the Sun Valley project.