If you prefer a wider view, you can switch to the dashboard layout from the Settings menu. Although it shows arrow resize markers when I tried horizontally resizing the widget, it didn’t respond, which leads me to believe it is possibly a bug at this moment. To view more content, you can vertically resize the widget. See more button takes you to Microsoft News page on the browser. Next to Language selection, you have the refresh button to manually refresh the feed. You can click on the Language and content button present in the bottom left corner to change the region and language of the feed. Microsoft has also packed stocks and cricket cards at the bottom. You can choose to disable the weather card if you want to use this widget strictly for news updates. Below that, you have the weather widget and the news feed. Windows 10 Pro released in July 2015 Windows 8 Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Enterprise Windows 8.1 Pro Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Windows Server 2008. Users of Windows Vista and Windows 7 have been advised to completely disable their Windows Sidebar and Gadgets, in response to what appears to be a serious security risk.

As soon as you enter the search query or the URL and hit Enter, the widget will take you to Edge browser. First up, there is a search bar where you can search with Bing or visit a website.

By default, Edge opens the news and weather widget in a vertical layout.

Windows 7 weather gadget cannot connect