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Windows 11 Overview
Windows 11 version 24H2, also known as Windows 11 2024 Update, is now available via 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 recommend that you start your organization’s targeted rollout now to ensure that your apps, devices, and infrastructure are working as expected in the new version. To help you plan, this post will discuss some of the features and improvements that will help you deliver exceptional experiences while helping to keep your company’s data, apps, and people safe on any device.
Windows 11, version 24H2 includes all the features and capabilities delivered through the ongoing innovation of Windows 11, now enabled by default. These include
Windows 11 Features
Windows 11 is getting a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to back down from its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10, introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is perfect for this. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign of the update, codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – supposedly, Windows 11 was hiding under this name. The Sun Valley project flashed 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.
Start and system items will float above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of every recent version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11, developers will transform it again, but not so much in terms of functionality, but visually – the Start window will hang above the bottom bar. It must be admitted that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu – the innovations will only affect the appearance of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as in the case of “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of the new menu indicate that it will be island – the control buttons will be on a separate panel, notifications on another, and certain elements (e.g. the player) on a separate one.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced by roundings. In fact, insiders and designers of the concept do not agree on this issue – some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will stick to right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion for fillets. The latter fits better into the definition of “All-New Windows” – just hovering over the menu is not enough to consider the new design as really new. It is expected that the rounding will 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 concept designers differ – some draw roundings in all possible interface elements, others connect them at right angles.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere. There is a divergence of opinions on the network regarding the island style of displaying windows, the design of the corners and the effect of levitation of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the windows. The vast majority of leaks and renders of the projects show transparency and blur in all windows, at least in the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are present even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for devices with two screens and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project.
