A Microsoft developer document has leaked the company's plans for third-party widgets coming soon to the Windows 11 Widgets feature.
In June 2021, Microsoft released their new News and Interests feature to all supported Windows 10 builds. This feature opens a small panel from the Windows Taskbar that displays various "widgets" containing your location's latest news, weather, stock prices, and traffic information.
While Microsoft develops the current Widgets, they also indicated that developers could create their own widgets in the future. However, Microsoft had not shared any details on how or when developers could submit them.
Developer doc leaks more details
A developer document discovered by Windows developer FireCubeStudio offers more information on how third-party widgets would be developed and published, indicating the feature is likely coming soon.
Information about third party widgets, publishing widgets and more. Looks like Microsoft is soon going to announce third party widgets officially.#Windows11 pic.twitter.com/ASRD98IMI6
— FireCube (@FireCubeStudios) January 16, 2022
According to the leaked screenshots, Microsoft will distribute third-party widgets through the Microsoft Store like other third-party apps.
