Microsoft was internally working on a new project, News Bar, which is an app that translate a news stream from the Internet. The app has reached the Beta stage, and is now available on the Microsoft Store.
The News Bar displays a sidebar that fetches news from more that 4500 sources, including Microsoft News partner feeds that supercharge MSN and Bing.
The user can change the sidebar position and monitor to appear on, customize new categories, track stock rates. It can be configured to hide itself automatically. Clicking on a news item opens the default browser.
Microsoft is gradually makes the app available to everyone.
You can download the app here:
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Windows 7 Gadgets back!
no downloads – code please
Well, that’s great. I always wanted the newest “Trump is a KGB agent” conspiracy theories on my desktop.
But I agree that the W7 gadgets were good.
I am guessing I cannot get it from your provided link because I have no code because I am not signed in with a Microsoft account.
Nostalgically similar to the good old ‘Bing Bar’!
Your headline is inaccurate. The app has not been “released”. It is in Beta and you need a code to download it.
Redeem Code please…
There is no code!
It’s a ‘Controlled Rollout’ thing, and you may even have to be on an Insider Build, but I’m not sure!
If you search it in the Store and get a result, you’re eligible, if not, you’re not.
If all else fails, you have to download the .appx bundle and sideload it.
@Kay
Yesterday, when everyone was posting, if you followed the link above and clicked “Get”, a popup opened asking for a code.
Today, it no longer asks for a code and I was able to “Get” it, doesn’t work for me though.
It just crashes on opening and brings my internet (200Mbps) to a crawl. I have to reboot my PC to get the proccess to fully close and restore my internet speed.
Faulting application name: msnews-newsbar.exe, version: 0.0.324.0, time stamp: 0x5e597f86
Faulting module name: d3d9.dll, version: 10.0.18362.387, time stamp: 0xc808fce5
Exception code: 0xc000001d
Fault offset: 0x00000000000acd21
Faulting process id: 0xb60
Faulting application start time: 0x01d606fe0e2de299
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ProjectNewsbar_0.0.324.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\msnews-newsbar\msnews-newsbar.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d3d9.dll
Report Id: 02b33edb-9fc9-47c3-ae3c-6832b77beb56
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.ProjectNewsbar_0.0.324.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: App