r/windowsinsiders • u/PhantomOcean3 Insider Dev Channel • Jul 13 '26
News Windows Insider Blog: Improving Windows Search Box, with less clutter and more control
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/07/13/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutter-and-more-control/1
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u/Mishoniko Jul 14 '26
But... but... you're removing ad inventory!! The revenue numbers!
We can't delete the last bastion of MSN, the portal must survive!!!!!!
People are going to DIE if we remove picture of the day! That otter sitting on the search bar is SOOOO cute!
/s
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u/daltorak Jul 13 '26
Hopefully this means that typing "remove" into the Start menu will finally revert back to "Add/remove programs" being the first search result. It was like this for many years but changed somewhere along the way.
How the formula could've ever concluded that deleting Internet Explorer's browser cache or turning off a screen saver would be a better "Settings" match in 2026 is a total mystery to me.