Windows 11 gadgets can now trigger your taskbar notifications

Microsoft is rolling out a taskbar notification system for its Windows 11 widgets. While the weather widget made its way back to Windows 11 earlier this year, it's largely a static experience that displays a sunny icon when the weather is good and an umbrella icon when it's raining and annoying outside. All that will change, as Microsoft is now adding animations directly to this taskbar widget.

All Windows 11 users will start seeing these new gadget notifications in the coming days, thanks to an update to the Windows Web Experience Pack that supports Microsoft's gadgets feature. Notifications appear as live animations on the weather widget on the taskbar and include thunderstorm alerts and even stock alerts when the stock you're tracking goes up or down.

Microsoft explains in a support article. “When something important happens regarding one of your other widgets, you can see a notification from that widget on your taskbar. These notifications are meant to be quick and easy to read, and if you don't interact with them, the taskbar will revert to showing you the weather.”

There have been a number of notifications in recent days on a Windows 11 machine, and they can be quite distracting - especially if you put the taskbar in the middle. Although the weather information is useful to warn you about thunderstorms and other natural elements that you want to avoid. You can just ignore the notifications and the taskbar widget will revert back to a static weather state, but the animations are sure to grab your attention if you're in the middle of a meeting or you're busy searching. understand why my VLOOKUP table is not working in Excel.

Microsoft also doesn't seem to offer a way to easily turn off these notifications. Wanted to keep the weather alerts but remove the built-in animations and any other notifications to make my taskbar a little less distracting. Since we can fine-tune the news content inside the main widget panel.

Speaking of future Windows 11 updates, Microsoft is also planning to release the next major operating system update on September 20. Windows 11 22H2 will include new application folders in the Start menu, drag and drop on the taskbar, new touch gestures and more.

Source: https://www.theverge.com