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But why?

by connordoner 5y ago

But why?

NotEvil 5y ago
Because they can
- connordoner 5y ago
  Seems to be Microsoft’s motto as late, especially when it comes to product changes… Sigh.
DoingIsLearning 5y ago
The same reason MS is pushing for MS Authenticator on companies who already had perfectly valid and safe vpn solutions. If your company wants the convenience of our products you must enable us to syphon even more data from your employees.
Stranger43 5y ago
Because they need to push their services like bing, office365 or msn. 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.
- connordoner 5y ago
  I’m not sure this is 100% it, given that Office 365’s MDM (Intune) is the service that would enable this option. Definitely a big part, though.
  - Stranger43 5y ago
    But in order to use intune you need to lock your self into an MS centric remote management platform so, in a way the exception though group policies is an driver for forcing people into the o365 ecosystem.
jeroenhd 5y ago
Cynics will tell you "because money". I don't think they're going to sell their MDM to anyone purely because they can't set an empty new tab page. 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.

3 ms·

But why?

by connordoner 5y ago

But why?

NotEvil 5y ago
Because they can
- connordoner 5y ago
  Seems to be Microsoft’s motto as late, especially when it comes to product changes… Sigh.
DoingIsLearning 5y ago
The same reason MS is pushing for MS Authenticator on companies who already had perfectly valid and safe vpn solutions. If your company wants the convenience of our products you must enable us to syphon even more data from your employees.
Stranger43 5y ago
Because they need to push their services like bing, office365 or msn. 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.
- connordoner 5y ago
  I’m not sure this is 100% it, given that Office 365’s MDM (Intune) is the service that would enable this option. Definitely a big part, though.
  - Stranger43 5y ago
    But in order to use intune you need to lock your self into an MS centric remote management platform so, in a way the exception though group policies is an driver for forcing people into the o365 ecosystem.
jeroenhd 5y ago
Cynics will tell you "because money". I don't think they're going to sell their MDM to anyone purely because they can't set an empty new tab page. 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.