EricDavisTechWe've designed our own News app for SP 2010 back then, along with translation workflows, so that news could be posted on foreign branches, etc. So yes, news can be a nice thing to have. But not on a per-site basis. Most enterprises are not companies in a sense of MS, IBM or other big guys, where search across the company is essential I know all my colleagues and don't need to search who does what. But - we have apps like invoice approval, sites, which don't need any kind of News. But ppl need to get to them. Why should they go via a Search button facility? I still think, that Sites button should stay on the front page, along the News, if you wish so - there is enough of space there for both. I wonder if there was enough of feedback from corporate / customer environments, or was it just internal MS decision. I still can't believe what I am seeing and how much of fanfare such a bad design decision actually gets ...