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MicrosoftTop feedback summary for December 3
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Although, the SE cannot be changed on the NTP (good thing Bing is so good) BUT... I can be changed to a preferred choice in the Address Bar. One can, also, make the Start-up page be whatever desired. Searching there rather than turning to the NTP and Bing, no matter how good it is.
Cheers,
Drew
Drew1903 wrote:Although, the SE cannot be changed on the NTP (good thing Bing is so good)
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
HotCakeX wrote:
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
That's a debatable topic. However what isn't debatable is that Microsoft has paid me nearly $200 in Amazon and Microsoft gift cards! I'm not ashamed, I can be bought.
HotCakeX wrote:I would want to set my own custom image as the background for NTP, not Bing images, also favorites folder need to have custom colors so user can set any color they want instead of all being yellow...
Custom folder colors would be amazing; however I would settle for just parity with the previous browsers. Walk before we run, etc.
I'm really not a fan of the new tab pages whatsoever - I never understood the need for them. Why should it look or act differently than the main tab page? Now it's just one more thing I have to configure, or troubleshoot why it doesn't look right. But yeah, if they're going to give us a "Custom" NTP option, really make custom and make it completely configurable, including the option to replicate the home page. And what ever happened to "about:blank"?
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DustinJ wrote:HotCakeX wrote:
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
That's a debatable topic. However what isn't debatable is that Microsoft has paid me nearly $200 in Amazon and Microsoft gift cards! I'm not ashamed, I can be bought.
HotCakeX wrote:I would want to set my own custom image as the background for NTP, not Bing images, also favorites folder need to have custom colors so user can set any color they want instead of all being yellow...
Custom folder colors would be amazing; however I would settle for just parity with the previous browsers. Walk before we run, etc.
I'm really not a fan of the new tab pages whatsoever - I never understood the need for them. Why should it look or act differently than the main tab page? Now it's just one more thing I have to configure, or troubleshoot why it doesn't look right. But yeah, if they're going to give us a "Custom" NTP option, really make custom and make it completely configurable, including the option to replicate the home page. And what ever happened to "about:blank"?
Bing sucks at non-English searches, their web crawler is so bad at it, also not all websites are indexed in there.
rewards points or the rewards themselves are also only good in US, for the other 200 countries, they are not that good, even in US there are more ways to earn points, these are the facts.
it's as if Microsoft doesn't want to attract more people and they are happy with serving only US citizens.
meanwhile, Google has spent so much on making their platform localized for a lot of languages and countries.
about favorites folder color, well if they decide to do it, then they better do it once and do it right, not postpone it for later times.
currently my NTP looks like this
no more messing around with distractions etc, now all i need is to set a custom background there.
that's the closest thing you can get to a blank new tab page 🙂
- Oh yeah, nobody could figure what it was about because it was blank.
Yes, lol, never have found the point of the NTP to be very clear or obviously. If anything, why can't it just the actual Bing page or same as Home or Start-up page.
There are a few Edge HTML items most people want. But, sure do agree when it's more and more of add that and add this, oh and it must, ALSO, do this, that and another thing. Make it do more and more and make countless new changes so it will meet the whims of every individual... Can sound like "never satisfied" after a while. Plus, you're right as to fundamentals having priority.
Btw, there, actually, are extensions in the Chrome Store that offer 100% blank and more backgrounds that you can imagine from solids to animated.
Cheers,
Drew
Sent from Windows MobileThe most important point of the new tab page is the speed dial feature I think, of course for Office 365 account users it gives them even more options for those premium products.
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