To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM
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For those of us with experience managing Windows environments, we know that for a long time, Microsoft have offered much more customisations for Windows and the apps to organisations. And in this case, to fully customise the Edge browser, you need to have your Windows computers joined to an AD domain, or enrolled in Intune which Microsoft is pushing as the future replacement for traditionally managed networks.
It sucks that home users can no longer customise this setting. My advice - stop using Edge. Windows 11 and Edge are incredibly hostile towards its users. I use Windows 11 daily, and it's incredibly frustrating how a generally nice OS is ruined by stupidly hostile moves by Microsoft. For example, they've gone to the effort of including a widget sidebar, but you can't fully customise it - you're forced to include a news feed of crappy articles from Microsoft-chosen publishers. Very frustrating.
Turned out, I think what is happening is Microsoft put a travel advertisement button to the pre-login screen which is usually where the login submit button is. So when he clicks it and then logs in, he sees a browser loading.
You'd think Windows would be free with all the advertising throughout the operating system. Imagine looking down at you wrist watch and having to watch a 10s advertisement before knowing what the time was... this is the hell that is Windows.
Windows is free (as in beer) as long as you accept the message in the lower right corner 'blah blah activate windows blah blah'
where?
they're all either sold out entirely or hugely marked up near me.
hope there will be a similar version for Win11
my motivation wasn't blocking telemetry or whatever, I just needed to squeeze every single frame out of my aging rig, and dove down the rabbit hole of optimizing win10 starting with LTSB
i had to jump back to win10 pro after a failed migration to LTSC, but i'm constantly looking for an excuse and will probably go to win11 only if there's a similar route (and then maybe even gladly :) )
Don't know if there were significant improvements since then.
I need to find a spare SSD and time/energy so I can dual boot and try it out on a "regular" system.
get a hold of the license? for ltsb/c there were a few reddit threads and a few key resellers, but the instructions seemed to change every few months :(
This is like locking Start menu customization behind MDM. Sure, you can do this, but it’s weird stance to take.
In fact if that works, a small tool to build/set fake GPOs for Edge would be quite useful.
But yes, kind of flabbergasted when I discovered that Microsoft was strong-arming the new tab page. Apparently the lessons of 20 years ago have been forgotten in Redmond.
It reminds me of the early 00's when everyone was installing add-ons that hijacked the IE start page or redirect 404/DNS errors. That's the ONLY reason I can imagine that would make MS think this UX is acceptable.
These extensions try to mimick Google and make it as hard as they possibly can to remove them. You have to remove the extension, remove the default search engine, change the homepage, and hope thst whatever crapware installed them doesn't get run again.
Chrome and Firefox have been fighting this crapware for years now and when Microsoft switched to Blink they inherited the same protection mechanisms.
You can still use these extensions, but only if you ACTUALLY want to. In most cases these alerts trigger, I don't believe the user has made a conscious choice to change their homepage.
When you deviate from industry standard (especially in a negative way) and intentionally prevent reversion back to industry standards you're doing it wrong.
I wanted to use a startpage for every new tab and was surprised to find that it's not trivial at all, eventually gave up.
I'm a long time Firefox user and MS critic, yet feel forced to remark that this dumbing down of browsers seems to be happening beyond Microsoft.
Add for Chromium the fact they don't give non Mac users the option to prompt a warning before exiting, because designers think that hiding an option for Windows/Linux is better for the users. Any idea what blog/book this designers (I include the GNOME ones) read that brainwashed them?
But the second step is part of Chromium. Chrome shows the same alert for extensions changing the new tab page for the first time. (Which to me makes sense)
I think this pisses me off much less than it otherwise would because I excised Microsoft from my dependence stack a few years back. I almost like these revelations because it's further justification of my decision; I was right.
There’s a world of difference between “free” and “priced in”. And anyone who builds their own PCs would disagree with this anyway.
I don't think people who build their PCs must pay for Windows, I weren't forced.
But probably laptop market sucks.
I never understood what to do with that blank page, now missing it and thus using Firefox
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/blank-new-...
Tools are much more than just sane defaults. A bit of configuration shouldn't be a deal breaker for something you spend a significant proportion of your waking hours on.
That's how I started using linux.
they are trying to extend their agreement. they sold a product and now have converted it into a service. it's such a horrible practice that needs to be called out for what it is.
a failure to innovate and a parasitic attachment to the host....
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If your company wants the convenience of our products you must enable us to syphon even more data from your employees.
Everything MS does around windows is designed to push/lock their customers into the office365/bing ecosystem.
A blank page contains no Bing/office365 integration so of cause cannot be allowed to persist.
My theory is that the Edge team doesn't want the empty tab page to exist. They want everyone to use their not-quite-Google-app experience. Some of their corporate customers probably pushed back on the change, so the code is left in, but only for those big companies that protest the change.
My conclusion is simple: if you don't like the new homepage, Edge is not for you. The feature is clearly not something the developers want to support, so even if you get it to work, it's probably not going to get any priority during testing. Either swallow the Edge tab page or pick another browser, because the alternatives range from annoying to use to painful to keep working.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-redirect/i...