Windows 11's Only New Useful Feature Has Nothing to Do With AI

Microsoft has turned Windows 11 into a broiling soup of AI features . Since Windows 10 is effectively dead, forcing the reported hundreds of millions of lingering users to switch to the AI-filled version of Windows, all those features we miss most have gone with it. So finally, after more than four years, Microsoft is bringing back a useful addition cribbed from the older version of its operating system.

If you’re like me, and you had a long love affair with Windows 10, you routinely click down to the Windows 11 taskbar, imagining you’ll be able to check your calendar widget only to remind yourself Microsoft inexplicably removed that useful Windows 10 calendar flyout. At its Ignite 2025 conference on Tuesday , Microsoft said it was adding back in the Calendar flyout when you c