Microsoft may be planning to let users pin Widgets to desktop on Windows 11


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...Now, according to my sources, Microsoft plans to take the widgets experience one step further by allowing users to pin them directly to the desktop, a move that Microsoft hopes will increase engagement with widgets. The experience will work similarly to how Windows Desktop Gadgets used to work on Windows 7, with them being placeable anywhere on the desktop...

...Letting users pin widgets to the desktop is part of a larger effort that's focused on enhancing the Windows desktop with modern features such as app folders, which Microsoft teased last year. I'm unsure when these features are expected to begin showing up, but Microsoft is holding a dedicated session about Windows Widgets at Build 2023(opens in new tab), so maybe we'll hear more about these plans then.

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