Sooner or later Home windows 11 will provide customers the flexibility to ditch the Microsoft Information feed from the widgets panel.

Presently, the widgets panel – accessed by way of the taskbar in Home windows 11 – accommodates a mixture of widgets (as you may anticipate) alongside MSN information tales highlighted by Microsoft.

Home windows Central experiences that Microsoft has made the choice to present customers the selection to drop stated information feed. You’ll be capable of select from totally different layouts for the widgets panel, in truth, a few of which could have the MSN information feed in them – and one will likely be widgets-only.

That is yet one more step ahead Microsoft has taken with Home windows 11’s widgets board in current instances.

Notably, the software program big is at the moment experimenting with a bigger widgets panel, one which’s an additional column vast (three as an alternative of two), providing you with loads of real-estate to view your widget-related stuff. And that’ll be even more true when you’ll be able to do away with MSN, and have a big panel totally devoted to all of your widgets – you probably have a whole lot of them.

Widget followers can even be happy at rumors – fairly sturdy ones – Microsoft goes to permit them to be dragged onto and pinned to the desktop. Plus we’re additionally seeing some additional touches like animated icons for widgets coming in, and new widgets from the likes of main gamers like Fb. Microsoft is driving laborious with this space of the OS, for certain.

Evaluation: Heading in the right direction

For us, that is one other change to Home windows 11 which isn’t that arduous to implement, and simply makes the OS higher. Extra selection is at all times good, and Microsoft seems to have taken that message to coronary heart with a few of its most up-to-date modifications from the Construct convention this week.

You’ll now be capable of select whether or not you wish to see MSN information within the widgets panel (some regard it as pointless bloat, however if you happen to don’t, you’ll be able to nonetheless have these information headline highlights). You’ll additionally be capable of select whether or not you wish to ‘by no means mix’ apps on the taskbar (lastly). These proper there are two key decisions – a minimum of for us – that may tailor the OS to work the way in which you need.

Now, Microsoft, how about giving us an enormous outdated hefty, actually essential, selection: to show off any prompts or assist – the stuff like badging within the Home windows 11 interface, or recommendations that pop up below the Ribbon while you’re utilizing Workplace, prompts to take a tour of options (that seasoned customers actually don’t want), something like that – in a single fell swoop, system-wide. A no nag swap, if you’ll, that additionally ditches issues like messaging to inform you to improve to the subsequent incarnation of Home windows. Quiet mode, we may name it…

That gained’t occur, after all, however hey, we will at all times hope for one thing alongside these strains. Regardless of the case, Microsoft is clearly on the right track by giving customers extra choices to show off stuff they don’t need, or reinstate settings from Home windows 10 that had been sorely missed by some customers. In brief, sustain the great work, Microsoft, and provides us extra of this form of factor – selection.