From PC World: If you’ve complained that Windows’ own Widgets simply clutter up your screen with junk stories, pay attention: There are several new, useful widgets that a recent Microsoft app makes available for you to use.
You might not think that the Microsoft Dev Home app would add anything useful to your PC, given that it’s an app aimed at managing a developer’s pull requests. But the app actually makes available widgets to monitor your CPU, memory, GPU usage, and network performance, too.
Neowin unearthed the new widgets in testing out the app. They’re similar to what Windows’ own Task Manager does, of course, with a few tweaks that could be useful.
Microsoft’s Widgets are either a useful gateway to additional content, or just a bunch of junk information that clutters up your screen. Microsoft previously invested in licensing news, and began launching experiments in 2020 with the News Bar to push that content to you. (Our story also discusses how to manage Microsoft’s news sources, adding and subtracting publications—but it’s doubtful that many people actually do that.)
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