Microsoft News Bar beta now available, puts a news ticker on your desktop

Microsoft launched a new app for newshounds on the Microsoft Store today, dubbed Microsoft News Bar. The app is essentially a persistent news ticker for your desktop, serving up the latest headlines as they happen. At that place's also a fair bit of customization to get the correct fit for your desktop setup.

On launch, News Bar takes up a portion of the right side of your screen with a listing of images for each news story. Hovering over each image will give you a preview of the story's headline and a chip of text. If y'all run into something you want to read further, y'all can click through to open the full story in your browser.

Microsoft's News Bar (beta) is an interesting idea. Could also be an anxiety bar for some 😂

Seems similar a throwback to the Vista widgets days. Doesn't make sense for laptops really (though it works), just desktops and multi-monitor setups? Sure. picture.twitter.com/d3MdoZR4uq

— Daniel Rubino (@Daniel_Rubino) March 30, 2022

All the same, if the default setup isn't for you lot, you lot can customize things a bit further. If y'all'd rathe see the headlines at a glance, there's an option to accept them overlaid on summit of the images. You tin can also reposition the bar on to be on the left side, top, or lesser of your screen.

When placed at the top of bottom of your desktop, News Bar switching to a scrolling bar of headlines without images. If you lot notwithstanding want images, however, y'all tin plough them back on through the app'southward settings. Finally, the whole affair can exist minimized when you desire a break from the constant stream of stories.

It's an intriguing concept for an app, and information technology will exist interesting to see how Microsoft expands on the idea throughout the beta. If you lot want to give the app a shot, you can download the News Bar beta now from the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft News Bar

Microsoft News Bar brings all of the latest headlines directly to your desktop with a streaming news ticker.

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