Microsoft pushed a new Release Preview build for Windows Insiders. One of its hidden features is the new Lock Screen widgets, which were spotted earlier in one of the recent Windows 10 updates.

Windows 11 Dev Channel build 23612 introduces a redesigned weather widget for the lock screen. This is the first substantial update it gets since the release of Windows 8 more than a decade ago.

I don’t think about Windows 11's lock screen a lot because I barely see it when I log in to my PC with Windows Hello face recognition. But I very well might start paying attention to it now that lock ...