- Microsoft seems to be modifying the idea of the new Building Edge tab page around Copilot
- However, the new design for the page is still hidden in the tests, so it is still very early
- It looks more aerodynecled, regardless
Microsoft Edge already has the AI Assistant of Copilot incorporated, but now it has been seen taking the center of the stage on the new web browser tabs (known as NTP for abbreviation).
Windows last marked that this change (first noted in Reddit) is present in the Canary (earlier) test channel for Edge, although it is not active by default. You must enable several experimental flags behind the scene to work.
To briefly explain the NTP, every time you create a new tab on the edge, this is what you see. Indeed, it is a (type of) white canvas, and at this time in the launch version of the Microsoft web browser, it contains a central search box (to turn on a bing search) that is complemented by the MSN feed material. (You can customize the latter to show very little of the food, or make it cover most of the screen; in the last case, the NTP is not a blank canvas).
With the new scheme of the things that are seen in the tests, everything that is replaced by a central co -pilot notice.
You can still write a search consultation, as you would with the current search box, but alternately, you can ask the assistant to everything you can in another part (as through Copilot on the web, or in the Windows taskbar, or Copilot in the side edge panel for that case).
There are direct access buttons under the co -pilot application box in the NTP, which allows the user to click to ‘write a draft’ or ‘learn something new’, etc.
The last of Windows the latter indicates that there is also a small drop -down menu that allows you to adjust how the NTP works. The ‘default’ configuration here is a combination of search and chat suggestions, so based on what you write in the copiloto message, in theory, edge will determine whether you will get a more complete response or a simple bing search result.
Alternatively, you can select ‘Search and navigate’ that focuses on the web search (no AI responses), or there is a ‘chat’ configuration that offers a co -pilot conversation experience.
In other words, you can look for a more traditional search (as is the case currently with the NTP), an experience of complete AI or a combination of the two (default) with Edge, luckily, making intelligent decisions about what should be done based on your initial consultation.
Analysis: more AI, but more aerodynamic (for now)
Remember, all this is not even in the tests yet, it is still in the early stages of being prepared to be tested on the Canary Canal. The ‘chat’ configuration mentioned above does not yet work at all, it only raises a Bing search result, and direct access buttons (for the taste of writing a draft) do not work either. As such, this is still an approximate idea, and it could well change before it is completely enabled even for the testers.
However, we can see the direction in which Microsoft is thinking of going, and this review reviewed certainly has positive aspects. It is much less messy and the new renewed tab page seems to be sergmentably clean, especially getting rid of the shit msn feed gunk in which many people are not interested.
There are people who will argue that it is only Microsoft by pressing AI and co -pilot in another way, but to be fair with the software giant, there is the option to do without AI’s responses (choosing the basic option of ‘search’). And also, if that is the price we must pay to obtain a more simplified NTP without msn content with which they are splashed, then it could be said that it is worth paying.
That said, as Windows Last also points out, Microsoft is testing MSN’s content within Co -Co -nursing (on Android), and it is very possible that this material (personalized and directed) is served through the Copilot box in the updated Edge NTP. It may not work that way, but it seems unlikely that Microsoft stops pressing its network content in the short term.
