Microsoft has released a new preview of a future Windows 10 taskbar that shows how it plans to display news and weather in the task bar.

The tool creates a shortcut on the taskbar that allows you to check the weather, as well as catch up on the latest news, sports scores and stock prices.

At-a-glance weather and news is coming to the taskbar on Windows 10 starting today for Windows Insiders.

Back in January, Microsoft rolled out a Windows Insider update that included some big changes to the taskbar. The changes include a new weather readout next to the system tray that, when hovered ...