Windows 11 could get a change to help banish Edge and Bing - but don't get your hopes up too high

• Microsoft could make the Windows 11 taskbar search box fire up your default browser and search engine, rather than Edge and Bing
• This is based on clues in an early test version of its Edge browser
• The EEA region already has the benefit of this change, so the hope is very much that Microsoft is considering rolling this out globally

Microsoft might just make a much-wanted change to Windows 11 in terms of having the search box open up a query in the operating system's default web browser rather than Edge.

Windows Latest reports that there are flags in a test build of the Edge browser (in the Canary channel), which are a hint that Microsoft is working on this functionality, though it may not ever come to fruition.

The flags in question are for features related to the 'WSB' or Windows Search Bar ...