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Windows 11 Pro Overview Windows 11. The main part of this announcement was to introduce a major change in the user interface, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes are borrowed from the look of Windows 10X, and Windows 10X will not come to market. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 data leak begins. Windows 11 Pro Features Windows 11 gets a completely new look. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to refute its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new OS number. And the completely new design suits it well. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, under this name was Windows 11. The Sun Valley project was online for a long time; Microsoft regularly reveals details of the new user interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this information. Start and system elements float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and the visible face of all the latest versions of Windows. As expected, in Windows 11, the developers changed it again, but not so much functionally as visually: the Start window hovers above the bottom bar. We have to admit 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 design of the window itself. The control panel also floats and has exactly the same design as “Start”. The action center is combined with control buttons – something similar has long been used in other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu point to it being an island: controls are on a separate panel, notifications on another, and certain elements (such as the player) are on another separate panel. Straight corners disappear and are replaced by fillets. In fact, experts and concept designers are divided on this issue: some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will stick to the right angle, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion of fillets. The latter fits more into the definition of “completely new Windows” – simply having floating menus is not enough to consider the new look really new. The files are expected to affect practically the entire 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 connect them at right angles. There is a translucent, blurry background everywhere. On the Internet there is disagreement about the island style of windows, the design of corners, and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees about the transparency of the windows. Most of the leaks and design renders show transparency and blurring across all windows, whether at least in the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are present even 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 use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increasing the distance between elements – the areas of the user interface that the user interacts with will surely become larger, and page titles will become thicker. A new typography that has already been introduced. Windows 11 will likely use the responsive Segoe UI variable font by default, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.