If you don't want either one, you can hide the Weather icon by turning off the Widgets option in Taskbar Settings. Clicking that icon opens the Widgets pane. There's now a Weather icon at the far left side of the taskbar (where the Windows 10 Start button used to be), which shows the current temperature and a brief forecast. This feature isn't installed automatically, and it doesn't require the latest Windows 11 cumulative updates - more on that in a minute.Īnother group of new features are focused on the Windows 11 taskbar.
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The new feature Microsoft has chosen to highlight is the Windows Subsystem for Android, which allows Windows 11 users to download and install a "curated" (that means small) selection of Android apps from the Amazon Appstore. It also raises a bunch of questions, starting with the obvious one. That's right on schedule for what would previously have been a semi-annual feature update. Many of those changes will arrive this week as part of the March Patch Tuesday update.
Windows boss Panos Panay rattled off a laundry list of "new experiences" (that's Microsoft-speak for features) at the end of February in a lengthy blog post.
Reasonable people might have assumed that the schedule change meant Microsoft was thereby committing to not delivering any new features outside of those annual end-of-year feature updates. (That decision was also applied retroactively to Windows 10.) Microsoft dialed back that schedule with the launch of Windows 11, committing to delivering these sometimes-disruptive feature updates only once each year, in the second half of the year.
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Those feature updates were designed to be delivered through Windows Update and are, for all intents and purposes, full Windows version upgrades. We take you through the process step-by-step (and screenshot-by-screenshot).
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