Windows 11 will receive support for third-party widgets before the end of 2022

As part of the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced, which will open access to widgets by the end of the year Windows 11 for all developers. They will be able to add them as an add-on to their Win32 and PWA applications.

Currently, the Windows 11 widget system is limited to Microsoft's own solutions, and the choice is rather limited. There are widgets for Outlook and To Do that are useful for users of these services, but the rest are mostly web applications that show the weather, entertainment content, or news.

So far, Microsoft hasn't announced a timeline for this feature, but it's great that this part of the Windows 11 operating system will soon be open to everyone.

Notably, the news came just days after Microsoft began testing Windows 11 with web search bar. Until now, widgets have been hidden in a special block on the left, but it looks like the company is ready to move them directly to the desktop.