Microsoft is bringing back the weather widget on the Windows 11 taskbar

Microsoft is delivery back its atmospheric condition widget on the Windows 11 taskbar. IT's a feature that originally debuted in Windows 10, providing live upwind conditions and quick access to the broader widget and news show feed. Windows 11 removed this taskbar integration pro a separate widgets panel, though.

"We are trying out showing the Widgets entry point on the nigh side of your taskbar with live windward content," explains Amanda Langowski, Microsoft's Windows Insider chief. "You can also open the Widgets board by plainly hovering over the incoming point."

*The weather gismo will come along as an ikon on left-aligned taskbars.*

The brave widget wish be displayed on the left side of the taskbar away nonpayment, or as an additional icon if you have your Windows 11 taskbar aligned to the left. This a la mode taskbar alter, available in the Windows 11 Dev Channel, follows the power for testers to display the sentence and date across multiple monitors. Both changes are expected to rollout in a Windows 11 update in 2022.

Alongside the taskbar changes, Microsoft is also announcing a new Voice Entree feature for Windows 11. "Voice access is a new experience that enables everyone, including people with mobility disabilities, to command their PC and source textbook using their voice," says Langowski.

*Voice Access lets you control Windows with your voice.*

Voice Access will support opening apps, switching between them, and activities like browsing the net or reading and composing emails. Once enabled, you can use commands like "open Word" to open Microsoft's word processing app, or even say "click" to select items.

Vocalise Access appears to be a combination of Microsoft's various speech recognition tools in Windows ended the years. Information technology's not yet clear when Voice Access will be available for totally Windows 11 users, and Microsoft says rising features will show up in future annual Windows releases or as part of monthly servicing releases.