Windows 10's new Taskbar feature 'News and Interests' begins public rollout in a few weeks

News Interests Lead 2022 Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Primal

What you need to know

Microsoft is announcing the full general availability of a new Taskbar feature.
The feature will begin rolling out in the next few weeks.
Users on version 1909 and upwards will get the new feature.

Microsoft has today announced that a new Taskbar feature will begin rolling out to Windows 10 users on version 1909, 2004, 20H2, and 21H1 in the side by side several weeks, making this the outset significant characteristic to be added to a version of Windows that has already shipped.

In the past, new Windows features usually show up as part of a new version of Windows x, only Microsoft is adding this new feature to versions of Windows that shipped over a year ago. The new feature is called "News and Interests" and places a widget on the Taskbar that gives you at-a-glance weather condition info, and the latest news from MSN.com.

The goal of this feature is to let users quick access to the information they'd normally take to manually notice. Whether that be the current weather, latest news, or up-to-date sporting leaderboards. The 'News and Interests' feature gives you one-click access to all of that information, correct from the Taskbar and powered past Microsoft's MSN website.

Microsoft has been testing these features with Insiders in the Dev Channel for a handful of months, which pb many to believe it was a feature that would scroll out equally function of the 21H2 update this fall. Only instead, Microsoft is backporting the feature to 21H1, which will release next month, 20H2 and 2004, both released throughout 2022, and 1909, released in fall 2022.

Ms Taskbar Newsinterests Gif Source: Microsoft

The company says News and Interests will begin showing up on customer PCs running version 2004 and higher up over the next several weeks. Users won't have to do anything to enable it, as it volition just show up on its ain when Microsoft is ready to requite it to y'all.

Are y'all excited to see Microsoft adding new features to already shipped versions of Windows? Will you lot use the new News and Interests feature? Let us know in the comments.

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