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can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out
windows settings screenshot with a hyperlinnk labelled "changing taskbar colour"
bing search for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com" (UK spelling). there are no search results, but there's a suggestion box thing with some text about what the windows 11 personalisation settings are capable of, and a button labelled "open colors setting" (US spelling)
microsoft edge popup window reading "this site is trying to open settings. https://www.bing.com wants to open this application.", with the options "open" and "cancel". "cancel" is highlighted in blue, and "open" is grey.
windows settings screenshot. "show accent colour on start and taskbar" is disabled.
in reply to Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:
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i wanted to see what happened when you clicked the initial "changing taskbar colour" link without an internet connection, but it just disappears
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botvolution
botvolution
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this is magnificent work by someone, or perhaps a whole team was needed to achieve such greatness
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FormlessOne
FormlessOne
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Because they're lazy. No, really.

In the Settings window for Windows 10, in the Taskbar tab, there's a link entitled "Changing taskbar color", under the Help from the web section in the upper right corner. That link goes to the following URL: https://www.bing.com/search?q=change%20windows%2010%20taskbar%20color%20site:microsoft.com&form=B00032&ocid=SettingsHAQ-BingIA&mkt=en-US

Seriously, all they did it would appear is increment the version.


change windows 10 taskbar color site:microsoft.com - Bing

Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.
Bing
in reply to Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

Lefty
Lefty
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They forgot the part where you print it out, lay it on a table and take a photo of it.
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JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized
JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized
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I seem to remember something about #Microsoft claiming to have #AI write a lot of their code...? 🤔
#AI #Microsoft
in reply to Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

mazunki loves you ♡
mazunki loves you ♡
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and if they thought to add the entry to search for it on bing, why not replace the bing click with the actual colour changer instead
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Mohit Sindhwani
Mohit Sindhwani
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I think you're clicking a link for "help about changing colours" which is why it starts the browser & when you finally come back, the colour of the link text has changed since the page has been visited.

It searches with the English (UK) text probably because that is the correct spelling on your Windows PC but then there isn't a help page found for it - so, it offers to show you the English (US) page instead.

Yes, not great! 🙂

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hazelnot :yell:
hazelnot :yell:
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UI designer here, it's a mix of corporate greed (the Bing/Edge nonsense) and just bad UX design (you apparently have to switch the theme to "Dark" or "Custom" - if you select Custom you then have to switch "Windows mode" to dark first 💀 - for that toggle to get enabled from what I've seen, never used Windows 11 though)
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