They have News, Microsoft Rewards and all other BS that doesn't need to be shown there imo. Sure can be useful for some folks and you have a setting to remove them. Would be nice if the setting actually worked.

For example, the setting to hide the news actually hides him from your sight but doesn't stop loading them at all, so if you scroll the page you still have them there. Hate it (not even considering that their news are garbage, I already downvoted a ton of celebrety news and they still show me the same amount of them).

So yeah, I guess I'd be more excited about AI search if wasn't Microsoft doing it. They are very poor designers and Windows 11 is the greatest example, with a lot of redundancy and elements that clearly don't fit in their new design language.