powertoys

For years, my Start menu felt like a ritual I didn’t enjoy: click the Windows icon, wait for the UI to load, hunt through pinned tiles and a “Recommended” feed, and hope the search box finally returned the file or app I needed. I stopped doing that. Instead I rebuilt the way I launch things...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping an opt‑in, persistent “Command Palette Dock” for Windows 11 — a thin, positionable menu bar that can host pinned Command Palette extensions and glanceable telemetry much like the top bars in macOS and many Linux desktops. Background PowerToys...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a persistent, optional “Command Palette Dock” for Windows 11 that acts like a second, configurable taskbar — a slim, extension-driven strip you can pin to any screen edge and populate with live widgets, quick actions, and favorite PowerToys...

Microsoft is quietly prototyping a persistent, customizable top bar for Windows 11 — not as a forced redesign of the shell, but as an optional dock surfaced through PowerToys' Command Palette that brings macOS‑ and Linux‑style glanceable system controls and widgets to the Windows desktop...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly testing a configurable, persistent “Command Palette Dock” — a slim, positionable menu/status bar that can live on any screen edge and surface pinned Command Palette extensions, system telemetry, and media controls as an optional PowerToys feature...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a Mac- and Linux-style top bar for Windows 11 — a configurable, persistent “Command Palette Dock” that can host glanceable system telemetry, media controls, and pinned tools, and that can be positioned on any screen edge as an optional PowerToys...

Microsoft’s latest PowerToys experiment — a persistent, positionable “Command Palette Dock” that can live at the top, bottom, left, or right edge of your screen — is quietly reshaping what many of us consider the Windows desktop to be. The feature is optional, built on the PowerToys extension...

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 experimenting with a new, optional UI surface called the Command Palette Dock — a persistent, positionable bar that brings a macOS‑style top menu / Linux‑style panel to Windows 11 as an opt‑in PowerToys feature, and the prototype is now open for developer...

Microsoft is quietly testing a secondary, configurable UI strip for Windows 11 via PowerToys — a persistent “Command Palette Dock” that can host live telemetry, media controls, clipboard snippets and pinned extensions, and be positioned on any edge of the screen as an optional, lightweight...

Microsoft’s experimental PowerToys work has produced a strikingly familiar idea: a slim, positionable menu/status bar — the Command Palette Dock — that can live at the top (or any edge) of your Windows 11 desktop and surface pinned Command Palette extensions, live telemetry, and quick actions...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping what it calls a Command Palette Dock — a slim, persistent bar you can pin to any screen edge that surfaces PowerToys extensions, media controls, and glanceable telemetry without opening the Command Palette or digging through Quick Settings. The...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly experimenting with a persistent, customizable menu bar for Windows 11 — a lightweight “dock” driven by the existing Command Palette system that brings macOS- and Linux-style quick access and status widgets to Windows as an opt‑in PowerToys experiment...

Microsoft’s PowerToys is testing a new optional UI surface called the Command Palette Dock — a slim, positionable top (or side/bottom) bar that promises to give Windows users the glanceability and pinned shortcuts many people associate with macOS and popular Linux desktop environments. The dock...

Microsoft is quietly testing a new PowerToys experiment for Windows 11: a customizable, persistent Command Palette Dock that sits at the edge of your screen and gives power users one‑click access to utilities, live status widgets, and pinned Command Palette extensions without diving into menus...

Microsoft’s leadership has quietly acknowledged a problem many Windows users have been complaining about for years: Windows 11 needs fewer headline features and more day‑to‑day fixes. In response, the company says it will “swarm” engineers onto long‑running reliability and performance pain...

Microsoft’s latest PowerToys experiment — a configurable, persistent “Command Palette Dock” that can sit as a menu bar on any screen edge — has quietly reopened one of the oldest debates in desktop UI design: how far should Microsoft go in rethinking the taskbar-centric model that has defined...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a configurable, persistent menu bar for Windows 11 — an opt‑in “Command Palette Dock” that can live on any screen edge and surface shortcuts, system telemetry, and PowerToys extensions — and the idea is already stirring an old debate: if you...

I swapped out Bing and Edge from the Windows Start Menu in minutes, but the path you choose matters: quick browser-extension hacks will solve the annoyance for many users, while system-level redirectors and PowerToys offer sturdier — but riskier — alternatives for power users and administrators...

Microsoft is quietly prototyping a configurable, persistent top menu bar for Windows 11 — not as a forced shell rewrite but as an opt‑in PowerToys experiment that aims to bring macOS‑ and Linux‑style glanceable controls and telemetry to the Windows desktop. This “Command Palette Dock” concept is...