There's a lot of good being done in the Windows store, the app store inside of Windows. The Apple third party apps I want aren’t on Windows How to fix it: More widgets, less fluffy news. But still I get served chum like the above. I try to do my best to avoid this chuff: in the 'followed interests' section on Microsoft's MSN site, I've only checked off TV, Movies, Music and Coronavirus. Stories like 'Amal Clooney Wore a Gorgeous Cutout Dress with George for 'The Tender Bar' Premiere,' 'BREAKING: Starting defensive lineman will miss the remainder of the season,' and 'Bindi Irwin Shares Sunny Snapshots of 'Princess' Grace, 6 Months, Smiling with Tongue Out.'

It's a series of news items that, were they shared on Twitter, would generate a series of dismissive replies. Then there's the section under the Widgets, which appears to be a holdover from something else. (It's not very tailored to my interests - I have done nothing to suggest I'd want to watch Trolls World Tour). The other apps, such as Watchlist Stocks, Sports, Esports (LOL), Traffic and Photos didn't do much for me, and the so-called 'Entertainment' app is merely a very basic, bland and not-at-all recent set of recommendations for what to watch. The only other included widgets that piqued my interest were Weather, To Do (I've got my own preferred productivity app, but this is a nice touch) and Entertainment. There's no way Microsoft could have made a widget that supported its own Calendars app, too? Windows 11 needs third-party widgets and it needs them badly. The only included calendars widget is Outlook Calendar, which (you guessed it) requires you to use Outlook. Widgets are here in Windows 11, and I'm really disappointed with the first batch. This means you don't get any Google apps, including Gmail or YouTube, which are glaring exceptions for those of us who think about Android being Google's world.Ĭan it be fixed? Not sure, but getting the real Google Play Store integrated with Windows would be a start. It's also because Windows 11 is getting the least appealing spin-off of the Google Play Store (and its 3.5 million apps) in the form of the Amazon Appstore's 500,000-ish apps.

This is partially because I'm an iPhone user and would rather those apps be made available (more on that below). But I also just don't care at all about the Android apps coming to the PC in Windows 11 (not that they're present at launch).

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