WINDOWS 11’s NEW TOOLS
What is a tool, a program, or a design element? The distinctions are subtle, and not everyone will agree where they fall but, if we consider ‘tools’ to be components that help you get things done on your computer, all the below certainly qualify.
Widgets are better than Live Tiles
Widgets are a welcome replacement for Windows 10’s Live Tiles – those squares showing constantly updating information that many users found annoying. There’s a Widgets icon to the right of the Task View button (1 in our screenshot right) that opens a panel on the left (you can hide this icon via Settings if you’re not going to use it). This is genuinely useful, giving at-a-glance news headlines 2, weather forecasts 3, traffic updates 4, your calendar and more.
You can add and remove most components, aside from news – if you’ve changed your default browser to another one.
