The Windows 10 Feature You Missed Is Back in Windows 11
If you upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 and thought, ‘Hang on… where did that handy little calendar view go?’, we bring good news.
It’s coming back.
Windows 11 is quietly reintroducing a bunch of the features people loved in Windows 10.
And one of the next returns is the Calendar agenda view inside the Notification Centre.
You’ll be able to click the clock and instantly see your day’s meetings, events and Outlook schedule without opening anything else. Just like the old days.
So why did Microsoft remove it in the first place?
Surprisingly, it wasn’t to annoy anyone (even though it felt like that).
Windows 11 wasn’t just a redesign. Lots of things were rebuilt completely from scratch. The taskbar, the Notification Centre, Quick Settings… all brand-new code.
And when you rebuild something from the ground up, you don’t always get every feature back on day one.
That’s why simple things like ‘right-click to open Task Manager’ and ‘drag and drop on the taskbar’ were missing for months. Remember how much that confused people?
Over time, Microsoft has slowly added those features back and now the Notification Centre is finally getting its turn.
The new Agenda view works much like Windows 10’s version.
A clean list of your upcoming appointments, organised by time, pulled straight from Outlook or your Microsoft 365 calendar.
You click, you see your day and you get on with your work. No hunting around, no switching screens, no digging through apps.
But because this is Windows 11, there’s a twist… AI is involved.
When you click on a meeting, you’ll be able to use Microsoft 365 Copilot to join the call, get quick summaries, generate notes, or even ask follow-up questions about what’s coming up.
It’s a little productivity boost built right into the system tray.
And yes, if you’re one of the people who missed seeing seconds ticking by on the clock, Windows 11 is bringing that back too.
Written by Craig Turnbull, IT Solutions Specialist at GSP Digital Solutions