In brief: Windows 10's "sweeping visual rejuvenation" is probably still a means away, but nosotros'll take plenty of smaller characteristic updates to examination out in the acting. One such update is the new, combined weather condition/news taskbar widget bachelor to Windows 10 insiders.

The widget does just what you'd look: when yous click on it (it'll show upward to the left of all your smaller taskbar icons), it pulls up a large info panel that you lot can whorl through and interact with. This console will bear witness you lot the latest headlines and stories, relevant stock prices, upcoming sports events, and the local weather in your expanse.

When the panel is minimized, it only displays an at-a-glance view of the weather, as you tin see beneath. Dissimilar some of Microsoft's other Windows features, this new taskbar button really looks pretty useful.

Information technology should permit you briefly take hold of yourself up on the latest goings-on in the world (or at least your local area) without distracting yourself from the task at hand.

If a detail topic does grab your center enough for you lot to want a more in-depth article, clicking on a headline will accept you correct to the source commodity via Microsoft Edge. It's unclear whether you can change that default to Firefox or Chrome.

You may as well choose to personalize your feed a bit, if yous're tired of, say, getting bombarded with stories about Covid-19 or the cost of Bitcoin. To do so, you only click the 3-dot menu at the acme right of a given widget and select the "Less stories like this" option. If you enjoy the stories you're receiving, you tin can select "More than stories like this" instead.

This characteristic will almost certainly roll out to the general Windows userbase in the time to come since it appears to be quite polished, just if you want to test it early, you tin. To do so, you can showtime by joining the Windows Insider plan and snagging Build 21286 in the Dev Aqueduct.

You'll also need a copy of Microsoft'southward Chromium-based Edge browser installed (information technology doesn't have to be your default browser), and you must live in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, or Bharat.