The new Windows 10 News and Interests taskbar news feed feature is now rolling out to Windows 10 devices worldwide.
Earlier this year, Microsoft began testing a new taskbar news feed feature called 'News and Interests' that includes various widgets that display the current news, weather, stock prices, and traffic information for your location.
Similar to Google Discover, News and Interests will build an interests profile for logged-in users based on their historically read content. News and Interests will use this interests profile to surface current news stories in the Windows 10 taskbar news feed.
Windows 10 users can train their news feed by personalizing their feed after logging into Microsoft's website with the same account you use on your device. When personalizing your feed, you can select from a wide range of interests that determine what types of content you are shown.
The News and Interests feature is currently rolling out to devices running Windows 10 1909 and later and who have installed the May 2021 Patch Tuesday Windows 10 security updates, scheduled for May 11th, 2021.
Windows 10 users who wish to access the 'News and Interests' feature can install this week's optional preview of the upcoming May Windows 10 cumulative updates.
You can install the Windows 10 preview update by performing a manual 'Check for updates' in Windows Update and then selecting to install the optional cumulative update.
Comments
Echo64 - 3 years ago
It's funny I've been on the dev insiders channel since basically forever and never got this feature, I guess my location/profile just wasn't interesting enough to be included.
Faslane - 3 years ago
Same here and I wasn't getting it either. I switched to the beta channel instead and got it and switched back and voila! I think it's a cool taskbar utility regardless if comments here. It's all personal preference and I find the at a glance topics and weather etc to be super handy. You can tailor it to your interests and leave out sports, finance etc (tons of topics when you select the stuff you like) just click them on or off.
AlfaX - 3 years ago
More useless shit
Faslane - 3 years ago
All personal preference. I like the news/weather/tickets I use all in a neat tidy popup personally.
HughJarce - 2 years ago
Couldn't agree more. Pointless bs I never asked for and that was foisted on me without my permission.
SAGtx - 3 years ago
Another useless "feature" foisted on me. Hopefully there will be a way to disable - preferably uninstall - this garbage.
Faslane - 3 years ago
It wasn't "foisted" it can be uninstalled. It's very handy IMO.
HughJarce - 2 years ago
Of course it was foisted on users. I never asked for it and I don't want it. If MS implements a new feature, it should ask users if they want it or not, not just install it without user permission.
And I don't give a damn if you personally find it handy. Your opinion means nothing to me.
And how do I UNINSTALL this "News and interests" feature? I can't find any way to do so. All I can do is disable it, which isn't the same thing as uninstalling it.
HughJarce - 2 years ago
Yep, totally agree. It can be disabled, but I can't see any way to uninstall it.
Faslane - 3 years ago
I LOVE this feature (and I'm lucky about useless crap) regardless of comments here. It's fast, you can tailor the interests and stuff you see and it's simple. Very little resources used and you can change taskbar indicator to just an icon if you prefer.