- Microsoft could make the Windows 11 taskbar search box on its browser and predetermined search engine, instead of edge and bing
- This is based on tracks on an early test version of your Edge browser
- The EEE region already has the benefit of this change, so hope is a lot that Microsoft is considering expelling this worldwide
Microsoft could make a very won change to Windows 11 in terms that the search box opens a consultation in the default web browser of the operating system instead of the edge.
The latest Windows reports that there are flags in a test compilation of the edge browser (on the Canarian channel), which are a clue that Microsoft is working on this functionality, although it may never be completed.
The flags in question are for characteristics related to the search bar
One of the flags indicates that the default browser will be used from the search box instead of the edge, and there is also a flag for the predetermined search engine that will be used instead of Bing. In addition to that, Windows Last discovered a flag to invoke both behaviors.
In that last case, it would mean that if you executed a search in the taskbar that produced a web result, instead of using Edge and Bing automatically, Windows 11 would bring its chosen predetermined browser and search engine (Chrome and Google, perhaps, or Firefox and Duckckgo, whatever you have chosen).
Keep in mind that these are hidden developments on the edge so far, but theoretically they would be linked to broader changes in Windows 11, so the predetermined values ​​mentioned would be respected by Microsoft.
Analysis: Leveling the Windows game field
Respecting your predetermined service and application options is, of course, exactly how things should work, but they don’t. Microsoft would prefer to call its own browser and search engine in Windows 11 whenever you can. If that bothers Windows 11 users, so it is, things have been like this for a long time.
Well, that is not entirely true for everyone, as notably, not long ago, Microsoft modified Windows 11 in the EEE (European Economic Area) to follow this behavior. Yes, people in Europe have their predetermined options for the browser and search engines adhered to the Windows search box due to EU legislation (the Digital Markets Law).
So, what this movement will be discussed, if it happens, is to put everyone else in the world in line with those European countries. That would be a great step forward for Microsoft in my book and, without a doubt, a popular movement, helping to reduce perception around Windows 11 beginning to become a two -level operating system based on which region lives (this is a point that I recently discussed about a useful change to extended free updates for Windows 10 that is happening only in the EEE).
However, before we get carried away by the notion of this great leveling of the field of the search box, it remains a nebula track. The flags hidden in an early edge test are a very vague track, and even more because we are guessing a bit in its meaning.
Even so, this is a tempting suggestion that Microsoft could be moving in the right direction, although I will only believe it when I see it.
