Subj : Microsofts lock screen cards for Windows 11 are about to arrive
To   : All
From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Apr 09 2024 10:45:05

Microsofts lock screen cards for Windows 11 are about to arrive  and a 
much-needed addition will follow

Date:
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:32:42 +0000

Description:
Not keen on the new lock screen cards that are imminent? Weve got some good 
news...

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Microsoft recently tested a new feature for the lock screen in the form of 
info cards in both Windows 11 and Windows 10 , which are now imminent, but 
this functionality is missing an important piece of the puzzle  something the 
software giant is going to remedy, thankfully. 

The widget-style lock screen cards give you a snapshot of the current 
weather, or stocks (finance), local traffic, and so on, but the problem was 
you could either switch them all on, or all off  with no fine-tuned control. 

So, if you wanted weather and sports scores, but not traffic updates and 
stocks, you were stuck with the latter two. 

However, according to a report from Windows Latest , Microsoft has told the 
tech site that youll be able to customize which cards appear on the lock 
screen in the future. However, no timeframe was mentioned for when this might 
happen. Analysis: Get on with it (please) 

Do this already, Microsoft. We made the observation before that it seemed 
pretty odd to introduce lock screen cards as an all-or-nothing affair, 
because many folks wont want a load of these  and will regard that as clutter 
 but might be happy with one or two tucked away on the lock screen. 

So, this was an obvious  and very necessary  move in our books. And 
hopefully, it wont take long to usher in this change, as we cant see that 
itll be all that complex to implement a choice here. Maybe the feature will 
arrive with the 24H2 update , at the latest wed hope. 

Meantime, all Windows 11 users will get the new lock screen cards later today 
in the cumulative update for April, or they almost certainly will, unless 
Microsoft delays the rollout if any problems were encountered in the March 
preview update (we havent heard about any issues in testing). And the same is 
presumably true for the Windows 10 update also coming today. 

Speaking of the Windows 10 incarnation of these lock screen cards , something 
else wed like to see is Microsoft working on the layout and presentation 
here, so it looks neater like the Windows 11 design. The reality may be that 
Windows 10 is not that high a priority any longer, though (when you consider 
that for a time, Microsoft froze all feature development on the older OS, 
before having a rethink ). You might also like Watch out: soon some older PCs 
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Windows 11



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsofts-lock-screen-cards-for-w
indows-11-are-about-to-arrive-and-a-much-needed-addition-will-follow


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