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Re:Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default sear... by jbob2000 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:43PM (#22122378)
Read the post before you get your knickers in a twist. The purpose of this change is so a special type of business client can allow their employees to search not just the web, but also their company’s internal resources.

Considering that most businesses provide their employees with company laptops, this isn’t something that is going to affect consumers.

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Re:Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default sear... by jabberwik on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:14PM (#22122640)
If I'm that special type of business client that is actually using Microsoft Search, cool, maybe I want an easy option to change the default engine. But that should be opt-in. Because Microsoft Search is also opt-in. They are deploying this to all O365 customers, regardless.
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Re:Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default sear... by mthoms on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:55PM (#22122964)
> They are deploying this to all O365 customers, regardless.

According to the article, it's only the "ProPlus" version of Office 365.

For now ;-)

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Re:Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default sear... by jbob2000 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:55PM (#22122968)
No they aren’t, read the post. It’s for ProPlus subscribers only, which is a plan that includes Microsoft search.
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Re:Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default sear... by brazzledazzle on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:56AM (#22127517)
Pro plus is pretty much every business and university. It’s not like you buy pro plus for the amazing Bing integrations.
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Re:Office 365 to begin setting Bing as Chrome's default sear... by tinus_hn on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:09PM (#22123474)
For that special kind of business that can’t use group policy to set the search engine, surely.
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