is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is making a big change to its Windows 10 taskbar soon, with the ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is bringing back its weather widget on the Windows 11 taskbar. It ...

This week, Microsoft began to roll out one of the biggest visual changes for Windows 10 since its launch: a news and weather widget that lives in your taskbar. No, I don’t mean one of those Start Menu ...

After testing it with Insiders, Microsoft is adding a new News and Interests feature to Windows 10. In short, the tool creates a shortcut on the taskbar that allows you to check the weather, as well ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 Insider build adds a significant number of features to Windows 10, including weather and news widgets in the taskbar, new storage settings, and some additional ...

In brief: Windows 10's taskbar hasn't changed much over the years, but Microsoft began experimenting with some fresh feature additions a couple of months ago. In January, insiders were allowed to test ...

In brief: Windows 10's "sweeping visual rejuvenation" is probably still a ways away, but we'll have plenty of smaller feature updates to test out in the interim. One such update is the new, combined ...

Stop Bing from making annoying recommendations in your Start menu, lock screen, and taskbar ...

Back in January, Microsoft rolled out a Windows Insider update that included some big changes to the taskbar. The changes include a new weather readout next to the system tray that, when hovered over, ...