Microsoft’s latest PowerToys release is quietly doing something Windows has struggled with for years: it is making the desktop feel more modular, more personal, and, in some ways, more usable than the default shell. The new Command Palette Dock in PowerToys 0.98 turns the already-impressive...
Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a macOS‑style, positionable menu bar for Windows 11 — the “Command Palette Dock” — that would let you pin live widgets, app shortcuts and Command Palette extensions to a persistent, highly configurable strip anchored to any screen edge...
Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a persistent, Linux‑style menu bar for Windows 11 — a configurable “dock” attached to the new PowerToys Command Palette that can live along any screen edge and host glanceable system info, media controls, and pinned Command Palette extensions...
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