Windows has a rocky history with widgets. Vista had the Windows Sidebar, a collection of widgets (then called ‘gadgets’) that provided glanceable information on one side of your desktop. Windows 7 allowed you to place these gadgets wherever you wanted on your desktop, but these were eventually deemed a security hazard and eventually scrapped. The original ‘gadgets’ in Windows Vista Then Windows 8 and Windows 10 abandoned traditional widgets in favor of Live Tiles. These were Start menu items that doubled as application launchers and sources of glanceable information. With Windows 11, Microsoft went back to traditional widgets and had…
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