Windows 11 may get a slightly detached “Floating Widgets” panel, perhaps reintroducing Live Tiles in a different avatar. The experimental feature is present in the latest test versions of ...

Windows phone didn't fail because of Live Tiles Is the Windows phone Live Tile UI inherently unintuitive? Some people think it is and claim that it's at the root of Microsoft's mobile woes.

Live tiles were introduced in Windows 8, and their function depends on the application. Tiles do not have to be live but merely be a larger graphic representation of the app icon in the Start menu ...

and the Windows 7 Start menu was brought back in combination with Windows 8 live tiles for a new appearance in Desktop mode. In 2020, there were approximately 800 million Windows 10 users worldwide.

For those still on Windows 10, no doubt you will have come across tiles that suddenly went blank or the "live" aspect of them stopped working. This happened on my system, and after a long period ...