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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by adventured on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:35PM (#15066142)
Microsoft doesn't yield enough sales or profit from Bing for such a thing to matter at all, versus the profit given up from the free upgrade on their single most profitable product. Bing is a financial joke compared to Windows and always will be.

The free upgrade was to get people off of 7 and 8. Windows 7 was an aging product that people were reluctant to give up, and Windows 8 was a disaster that was accelerating the erosion of Windows and doing damage to a brand worth tens of billions of dollars. Windows 8 was acting as a product generation blockade, most 7 users didn't want to touch it, and people who bought it had a poor experience. Bing had nothing to do with the free upgrade at all.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by cma on Monday August 21, 2017 @09:14PM (#15069015)
The upgrade changed your search provider to Bing unless you were very careful, I believe in more than one place. It also tries hard to default you to Edge which would take you to Bing. And I believe it added lots of new agreements on tracking. There is now a Cortana/Bing voice search service that can't really be fully turned off that came with it or one of thelater upgrades I think.
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