Microsoft can revive Windows 7 gadgets

Windows 10 21H2 Sun Valley could reintroduce a feature that disappeared after Windows 7: tools that let you display types of widgets in a semi-transparent bar on the side of the screen. A leak claims that Microsoft is working on a new feature called “Windows Widgets”.

You might remember “gadgets” from Windows Vista and Windows 7 And its variants on competing operating systems such as Linux Ubuntu or what was previously the Control Panel in Mac OS X. Tools, also called tools, are types of Small and simple applications, the function of which is to display one or more permanently defined data. Usually it is attached to a private space. In Windows, it was a semi-transparent sidebar that you could show or hide from the taskbar.

On Mac OS X, until the feature disappeared, gadgets were entitled to use a special dedicated desktop called the Dashboard. Then, around the same time, Microsoft and Apple appeared to have given up on the idea. So the tools were not included in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Likewise, the Dashboard disappeared shortly before switching to macOS. Go Microsoft, at least, appears to have not given up on the idea. Microsoft’s popular all-things leak, @ _h0x0d_ aka Walking Cat, reveals that Microsoft is currently developing a mysterious feature called “Windows Widgets”.

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He explains on Twitter: Windows Widgets is something that pops up on the left of the screen with a swipe gesture.. Si on en croit Walking Cat, So Microsoft hasn’t completely given up on the idea, but it might have been looking for the right formula to make it something really useful..

We also notice the passage of this bar traditionally placed on the right to the left, in an area already occupied by the interface of the Start menu. It will of course be essential to see how the company integrated all of this. Given the comforting concerns that seem to be the common thread of later versions of Windows, we imagine the company’s designers have found a fun way to transition between these elements.

It remains to be seen when we will see this new toolbar appear. It looks like the planets are still preparing to appear in the upcoming Sun Valley Update. Microsoft is already gradually changing the rhetoric, it is no longer talking about updating Windows 10, it is talking about “the next generation of Windows” indicating the arrival of a real new version with many changes in the interface. What do you think of a possible hardware comeback? Share your opinion in the comments.