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Perhaps emboldened by a decade of largely being left to its own devices by the competition authorities, Microsoft is increasingly testing consumers' patience by injecting more and more unwanted extras into Windows 11. Widget sidebars full of tabloid news stories, apps appearing on the Start menu, AI services being shoved into the limelight.
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The missed opportunity that are Windows 11 Widgets continue to infuriate rather than illuminate. With Microsoft's glacially slow approach to offering Widget space to third parties, it continues to stuff screen real estate with content from news channels, meaning you will often find your Widgets panel stuffed with utter drivel such as celebrity gossip or tabloid news stories that you never asked for.
There are two approaches to dealing with this problem: either try to clean the Widgets feed manually or dispense with them altogether.
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