Security News > 2021 > May > Microsoft fixes Windows 10 'News and Interests' annoyances

Microsoft has addressed some of the annoyances reported by users of the newly released Windows 10 'News and Interests' feature in the latest preview update released for Windows 10 2004, 20H2, and 21H1. Using News and Interests, Windows 10 displays news stories and articles matching a profile of the logged-in users' interests based on their historically read content and various widgets with 'snackable' local forecast, sports, stocks, and traffic information.

Microsoft improved the News and Interests hover experience this week by adding an 'Open on hover' option to its taskbar submenu to prevent accidentally opening the News and Interests user interface.

The company first started rolling out the Google Discover-like news recommendation feature to Windows 10 Insiders in the Dev Channel back in January.

The taskbar news feed feature was later backported to Windows 10 20H2 and 21H1 through preview releases of cumulative updates issued through the Beta and Release Preview rings.

"News and interests on the Windows taskbar will begin rolling out to customers over the next several weeks," said Aaron Woodman, Windows Marketing General Manager at Microsoft.

Windows 10 users who wish to access the new feature can now install this week's optional KB5003214 Preview cumulative update for Windows 10 2004, Windows 10 20H2, and Windows 10 21H1. "News and interests on the taskbar is now available to anyone who installs this update," Microsoft said.

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