Microsoft introduced a dedicated widget panel with Windows 11 last year, which users can access by hovering over the weather icon in the lower-left corner of the taskbar. Now, the tech giant is exploring ways to bring widgets and other "lightly interactive content" to the Windows 11 Start screen with the new Windows 11 Build 25120. Check out the details below.

Microsoft has started rolling out a new Windows 11 build 25120 to the Dev channel for Windows Insiders. In addition to making small changes and fixing existing bugs and issues, Microsoft has added a brand new feature that allows users to pin an interactive search bar directly to the home screen of their Windows-powered PC or laptop.

The search bar lets users search for any type of content on the web, and it will probably use Microsoft's own Bing search to find searched queries and display the results on Microsoft Edge, although Microsoft didn't share much information about that. Additionally, the company says this is one of the "conceptual features" it's working on and will eventually bring support for different widgets instead of just a search bar. There are chances that it will never make it to the stable version of Windows 11.

Additionally, the new search bar will not appear for all Windows Insiders running the latest version. Instead, it is available to a few users. You can check out a preview of what the search bar looks like on the Windows 11 Start screen in the main image.