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It includes Windows 11 features

Windows 11 Overview Windows 11, 24H2, also known as the Windows 11 2024 Update, is now available through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update for Business. Today begins the 36-month support period for Windows 11 24H2 Enterprise and Education editions. We recommend that you begin a targeted deployment in your organization now to verify that your applications, devices, and infrastructure are working as expected in the new release. To help you plan, this report describes some of the features and improvements that help you enjoy 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 are part of the ongoing Windows 11 updates that are now enabled by default.

Windows 11 will get a completely new design

It is clear that Microsoft needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the brand new design is perfect for it. The Redmond giant has long been preparing an update design codenamed Sun Valley, which was apparently the name of Windows 11. The Sun Valley project flickered on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed 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. Running and system items will float above the bottom bar.

Admittedly, these minor changes make the system feel much fresher

Start is the calling card and face of every recent version of Windows. Not surprisingly, in Windows 11, developers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window hung above the bottom bar. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of this menu – the updates will affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float and have the exact same design as Start. The Action Center will be combined with control buttons, similar to what some other operating systems have been doing for a long time.

The rectangles will disappear, replaced by fillets

Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island with controls in one separate panel, notifications in another, and specific items (like the player) in another separate panel. In fact, insiders and concept creators are divided on this issue, some are 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 “completely new windows” better – floating menus alone aren’t enough to make a new design truly new. The fillet is expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, the opinions of the creators of the concept differ on this issue as well – some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine at right angles.

There will be a transparent background with a blur everywhere

There is disagreement on the Internet about the style of the window islands, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. Most of the leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or the browser. Moreover, these effects are present even when installing the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak apps in parallel with the Sun Valley project.