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News and Interests rolling out to Everyone

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Windows is rolling out a previously exclusive to Windows Insider Dev to the rest of the world. What feature? News and Interests.

 

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Spoiler

 

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>see full forecast

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>see more news

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what you see on the taskbar:

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News and interests settings (right click on taskbar)
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>manage interests

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Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing 20H2 Build 19042.962 (KB5001391) to the Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on 20H2 (Windows 10 October 2020 Update).

 

This update includes the following improvements:

  • We are rolling out news and interests on the Windows taskbar to Beta and Release Preview rings. This has been available in the Dev Channel, with on-going improvements based on Insider feedback. News and interests on the taskbar make it easy to stay up to date with information at a glance, and we look forward to hearing what you think.

 

My thoughts

Glad to see new feature in older versions, and super pumped to check it out.

 

Sources

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.962 (20H2) to Release Preview Channel | Windows Insider Blog

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Is it like the old RSS feed addons you used to get on vista? 

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3 minutes ago, Arika S said:

Is it like the old RSS feed addons you used to get on vista? 

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it's MSN and MS weather.

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GPU: Radeon RX 570 8GB OC

OS: Windows 10

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Cinebench R23 score: 9097 (multi) 1236 (single)

 

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-wall03

 

hello dark mode users

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4 minutes ago, wall03 said:

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it's MSN and MS weather.

Boring. Don't care about the weather. And 95% of news is depressing or politics or depressing politics 

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I could totally see people like my mom (a non-techie consumer) liking the weather aspect of this provided it doesn't require her to manually input her location or enable it.  Otherwise I think it'll end up being a feature that everybody will either ignore or disable.

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Something I could easily ask Siri or Google Assistant.

There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside

 

 

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Basically nothing of use.

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Just another opportunity to be drip-fed sensationalist "news" by an automated algorithm for advertising purposes. Yay!

 

Sorry if I sound cynical, but it's hard not to be when it comes to Windows these days.

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