Microsoft sets pinning and default policies for 1st and 3rd party apps

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Published onMarch 20, 2023

published onMarch 20, 2023

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In a recent Microsoft press release, the company patted itself on the back for their latest commitment of “empowering” developers with support for third party application pinning and Taskbar pinning.

According tolast week’s press release,Microsoft is committing itself to the following:

As a matter of practicality, the above proclamations amount to new publicly available APIs for developers that will allow their apps to be pinned as either primary or secondary tiles to the Taskbar.

While the end result of the new support will fundamentally look the same, Windows 11 users will now be notified in the Action Center about a pending request from the app, to be pinned to the Taskbar in similar fashion as the Edge browser employes when pinning websites as apps to the Start Menu, Taskbar or both.

As for defaults, Microsoft says it will offer “a new Settings deep link URI for applications to take their users directly to the appropriate location in Settings for the user to change their defaults.”

Microsoft may not have publicly acknowledged a backtracking on its own recentbullish default practices with Edge, it is retrenching in its belief that offering specificity will help the end users. It is debatable whether or not users understand protocols or file extensions, but they dropping them into the exact place to set their favorite app as the default interaction could be beneficial.

Not as beneficial as automatically applying the default to the correct extensions and protocols as the OS had once done, but more beneficial than Microsoft simply replacing a third-party apps interaction with its own.

Windows Insiders on the Devi Channel flight release cycle should start seeing these features pop up in the coming months.

Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

Kareem is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. His passion for technology and content creation drives are unmatched, driving him to create well-researched articles and incredible YouTube videos.

He is always on the lookout for everything new about Microsoft, focusing on making easy-to-understand content and breaking down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security.

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Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

He is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. He breaks down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security

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