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The optional update (KB5003214) for Windows 10 for 2004, 20H2 and 21H1 is out today and it indicates several fixes to the News and Interests “News an
[See the full post at: News and Interest are going to go wider]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
I like the new News and Interest feature on the taskbar. The ONLY hitch I’ve had so far is that it seems to force any clicked-on link to open in Edge rather than my default browser (Chrome, in my case). I’m going to gripe at MS about this one, along with any other instances where Edge or IE get opened instead of the default browser. Edge is a great browser, but it still has some unpolished edges* that keep me from making it my default.
I’ve also found that, up until now at least, using an Office 365 app to open something “as a web page” brought up Internet Exploder instead of any other modern browser! With luck, since 21H1 is eliminating IE entirely, that will change to at least open Edge instead, or perhaps someday will go to my personally-preferred browser….
// Steve //
*Disclaimer: my opinion, your mileage may vary, void in Nebraska, etc. 
“Microsoft told BleepingComputer when the feature was released that it will not be displaying advertisements at launch, but that may change over time based on Windows 10 customers’ feedback.”
Don’t even go there….
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Don’t even go there….
Wow, thanks Susan, but please don’t tempt us, a Quote from the linked Bleeping Computer article has me concerned:
“Using News and Interests, Windows 10 displays news stories and articles matching a profile of the logged-in users’ interests based on their historically read content…”
that ‘matching a profile, and based on their history’ is kinda worrying,
is Microsoft producing a ‘dossier’ file on us for personalized ads?
The Ten Forums website has a tutorial on how to Disable if want to,
has both Group Policy and Registry Edit, Pro and Home, with notes:
How to Enable or Disable News and Interests on Taskbar in Windows 10
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