Microsoft is finally bringing the long-awaited 'agenda view' to the Windows 11 Taskbar calendar flyout, meaning you can stop opening the full app just to see your next meeting or event

The new agenda view coming to the calendar flyout next month. 

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This small but important change is going to make the calendar flyout so much more useful. It's actually insane to think that it hasn't supported this until now, even though Windows 10, macOS, and Chrome OS have features just like this. It's just another example of Windows 11 playing catch up, but better late than never I say.

Microsoft also announced a number of other productivity enhancing features, including new AI capabilities such as the ability to generate AI written text in any text box across the OS, and the ability for Outlook to generate summaries of your inbox. Windows 11 is also gaining a new agentic workspace feature, which will let AI agents operate in their own desktop environment alongside your own.

The company has also unveiled a new hardware accelerated version of BitLocker that will launch next year on new PCs running Windows 11, which is designed to encrypt data faster and more securely.

Microsoft is pushing forward with its vision of an agentic, AI native Windows 11, but it's also promised to focus on other important aspects of the OS, such as enhanced productivity features and power user enhancements. Features like an agenda view in Calendar may seem small, but it's a sign that the company is listening.