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This includes Windows 11 features Windows 11 will receive an all-new design

Windows 11 Overview Windows 11, version 24H2, also known as Windows 11 2024 Update, is now available through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update for Business. Today marks the beginning of 36 months of support for the Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 11, version 24H2. We encourage you to begin a targeted deployment in your organization now to validate that your apps, devices, and infrastructure work as expected with the new version. To help you plan, this post describes some of the features and improvements that help you drive exceptional experiences while helping protect your corporate data, apps, and people on any device. Windows 11, version 24H2 includes all the features and capabilities delivered as part of the continuous innovation of Windows 11, now enabled by default.

And a completely new design is great for this

Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10, introducing a new operating system number. 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 flashed on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly disclosed 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. The Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of every recent version of Windows.

We have to admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher

It is not surprising that in Windows 11, the developers will transform it again, but not so much in functional terms as in visual terms – the Start window will hover above the bottom bar. Judging by the information on the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as that of the “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons together – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island – the control buttons will be located on a separate panel, notifications will be on another, and specific elements (such as a player) on a separate one.

There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere

Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced by fillets. In fact, insiders and concept designers disagree on this point – some are confident that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep the right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion. The latter fits better with the definition of “completely new Windows” – just floating menus are not enough for a new design to be considered truly new. The fillets are expected to affect virtually 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.

The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer

There is disagreement on the web about the island style of displaying windows, the design of corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the windows. Moreover, such effects are even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for dual-screen devices and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project.