Windows 10 Insider Preview Dev Build 21318 (RS_PRERELEASE) - Feb. 19 Insider

I wouldn't mind having News and Interest if MS would allow me set it to only popup if I click on it and/or allow me to move it to monitor 2.

From Restart to Desktop: 21 minutes.

Everything is in order.

Don't forget Guys, these new features are in Active Dev branch of Insiders program. Sometimes they are not available to everybody at once, which means progressive roll-out. They might or not make it to the final stable release depending on feedbacks in Feedback Hub. Everything one wants to know about this new feature is in Shawn's wonderful tutorial, more specifically OPTION 2 (Add or Remove News and Interests icon on Taskbar using a BAT File)

Customization - How to Add or Remove News and Interests icon on Taskbar in Windows 10 | Windows Questions

swarfega said:

You think MS would want every one to test it as widely as possible.

Why not. Maybe, I don't understand your point, but if they (MS) are showing some new features it is for them to find out whether people like them or not.

waltc said:

I've never had it on my taskbar, oddly enough...

As well, still got the Edge stuff even though Edge is not my default browser. Fixed as outlined above--only got rid of the Edge stuff by uninstalling Edge.

I have never had it either. The only thing is that, in my case I am not an official Insider—Always get those insiders builds from UUPDump and installed them in a Hyper-V VM— that's probably why. To another of your points, Edge is my default browser; I guess I was tired of this fight between those main big browsers on my computer always trying for one to use their own stuff. So I had to make a decision and opted for Edge. I rarely use the others nowadays.

waltc said:

I'm sure they do, without a doubt...but the problem is that Edge is a separate application from Windows10. Edge is not even in the same category as an OS, imo. If it wasn't separate, I couldn't have uninstalled it. Edge uninstalled, Win10 runs as well as it always has. This beta program is for Win10 beta testing--I note there is a separate program for testing Edge--which I am not involved with by choice. I don't want to test a browser, I want to test the OS. I'm in the Win10 testing program, not the Edge browser beta testing program.

I remember back many years ago when I was running IE alongside Netscape Navigator--in the beginning, IE was a separate download from Microsoft--just another application, just like Navigator, and Microsoft did not even try to claim it was an immovable, intrinsic part of Windows sort of like the Windows file system is an integral part of Windows, and so on. That came much later on and not even the very slow and often dense court system believed it was an inseparable part of Windows.

It's not a big deal to me now that I've handled it, but I do take exception to Microsoft expecting me to test a separate Microsoft application I have no desire to test. I'm sure that some people enjoy testing Edge, and that's great. Just not my cup of tea. If Microsoft had not put the "Weather card" from Edge on my taskbar without asking me, or they had put it there with an easy way of turning it off, then we would not have had this conversation... I'm sort of surprised they haven't lumped Office in with Win10 beta testing thus far!

Does Edge actually uninstall or just hide? As I recall that is what they did with Internet Explorer.