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This is the latest version of the Windows OS version, with a new interface and other new features such as the new Microsoft Store, a new AI-powered personalized feed and the best browser performance since Microsoft Edge, Chat by Microsoft 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 continue to ditch Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the brand new design is great for that. The Redmond giant has been preparing a redesign for an upgrade codenamed Sun Valley for a long time – it seems that under this name Windows 11 appeared on the network for a long time – Microsoft somehow regularly revealed details about the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this information. – Startup and system items 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 in Windows 11 will transform it again, but not so much from a functional point of view, as from a visual point of view – the Start window will move above the bottom bar. We have to admit that this small change makes the system look a lot fresher. Judging by the information on the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” 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 that of “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons together – a similar one has been used for a long time in 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 (such as the player) on another. – Right angles will disappear, replaced by tabs. Indeed, insiders and concept designers disagree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet trend. The latter fits better into the definition of “all-new Windows”—mouseable menus alone aren’t enough to make a new design truly new. Tabs 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 in all possible interface elements, others combine them with right angles. – There will be a transparent background with fading across the entire surface. There is disagreement on the web about the style of the display island, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the window. The vast majority of design leaks and renders show transparency and fading 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 includes 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 was already displayed. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders. Its advantage is that it is equally suitable for small texts and large inscriptions.