These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!
The changes to Windows for DMA-compliance include:
- You can now uninstall Edge and Bing web search using the built-in settings. Earlier, the option was greyed out.
- Third-party web search application developers can now utilize the Windows search box in the taskbar using the instructions provided by Microsoft and choose any web browser to show results from the web.
- Microsoft will no longer sign-in users to Edge, Bing, and Microsoft Start services during the initial Windows setup experience.
- Data collected about the functioning of non-Microsoft apps, primarily bug detection and its effects on the OS, from Windows PCs will not be used for competitive purposes.
- Microsoft, from now on, will need explicit user consent before combining data from the OS and other sources. It will also deliver new consent screens where required.
how about fucking autopilot too instead of having to find a registry to disable it.
Edit: I’m dumb and don’t know what I was even being mad at. I should have said copilot, that’s what I actually meant. I didn’t realize autopilot was a thing.
What do you mean. Autopilot is an enterprise feature. If you bypass Autopilot you are either circumventing your organization’s policy or you bought a computer that was not removed from org properly.
gasp
As the sys engineer for an organization that creates the policy…don’t do that
I’m going to do it
I’m gonna force my entire company to edge harder because of this policy! Long live edging. I hope they edge over chrome Everytime.
Make them yahoo while you’re at it
Sure! But I’ll use a group policy to disable any searching via address bar so they have to go to “www.yahoo.com” I’ll block any site that isn’t prefixed with www. Manually