Windows 11 brought back widgets to the PC , but keeping them in a panel accessible from the taskbar instead of the desktop. Even more widgets are now on the way.
Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25290 is now rolling out in the Dev Channel, for any PCs enrolled in the Windows Insider program. It introduces two more widgets, though they have to be downloaded through the widgets collection in the Microsoft Store first. There's a Spotify widget, which shows recommended playlists and other controls, and a Phone Link widget that displays the status of a connected phone with recent notifications.
Microsoft said in a blog post, "as you give these and other new widgets a try, please let us know what you think through the Widgets feedback link in the widgets picker. You should expect to see additional new widgets as more developers create and release widgets for their apps."
The influx of new widgets comes after Microsoft released an SDK, allowing other developers to create widgets for the first time — on the current stable builds of Windows 11, only Microsoft's own widgets are allowed. Facebook Messenger began testing a widget in January , and we can expect more to show up as third-party widget support starts rolling out to more PCs.
Source: Microsoft
- Ubuntu Is Now Available on the Windows Store
- How to Use Your Windows 8 PC Anywhere – Without Taking It With You!
- 8 Super Windows 8.1 Tweaks For Power Users
- Mets Score 9 Runs On 11 Hits In Emotional Victory On 9/11 Anniversary
- 7 Ways to Organize and Control Your Windows Desktop
- Microsoft’s 1.11 App Lets You Revisit Windows 1.0
- How To Upgrade To Windows 8.1 & How To Downgrade Back To Windows 8
- 4 Archaic Functions Windows 10 Still Supports
- How the 'value trap' squeezes Windows PC makers' revenues and profits
- This Happens When Windows 10 Support Ends
- How to Tweak Windows XP and Stop Worrying About the Apocalypse
- Speed Up & Tweak Windows Explorer [Windows 7]
- How To Improve Windows Explorer By Adding New Columns
- Windows 8 hits 200m licences - at a pace putting it on a par with Vista
- No more buggy Windows 10 updates? Microsoft makes it easier to flag early flaws
- How To Tweak The Windows And Office Ribbon Menu
- How to Extract Pages From a PDF in Windows 10
- How to Password Protect a Folder in Windows
- 7 Windows 8 Niggles Resolved
- Quinnipiac Poll: Most New Yorkers Support ‘Broken Windows’ Policing
Windows 11 Is Adding Even More Widgets have 379 words, post on www.howtogeek.com at February 2, 2023. This is cached page on TechNews. If you want remove this page, please contact us.