Windowshas a rocky history with widgets.
Then Windows 8 and Windows 10 abandoned traditional widgets in favor of Live Tiles.
These were Start menu items that doubled as software launchers and sources of glanceable information.
Instead, the company severely limited widgets by collecting them in a hidden side panel.
It’s free, every week, in your inbox.
Granted, there are also very few widgets currently available in the first place.
Luckily, the solution is simple.
Thats just something most people wont do, including many of us who actually would regularly use widgets.
And its a similar story with iOS, whichadded widgets in 2020.
I get the concept behind storing the widgets in a panel.
When the company announced Windows 11, there was a big emphasis on the newdesignpromoting a sense of calm.
Its why Live Tiles were removed.
Its also what informs Windows 11 overall aesthetic, with its softer edges and multitude of transparences.
But making somethinglooksimpler doesnt necessarily make lifeeasierfor the user.
Youll never end up using it.
Its as they say: out of sight, out of mind.
Except in this case, thats not a good thing.
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