Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer

Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by wdobbels on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:42AM (#22127020)

Exactly. The browser provides a URL bar that is coupled to a search engine. It makes sense for the browser to provide you with a default option for that search engine. A web browser is something that needs to be on every computer; so it makes sense that the OS installs a default web browser.

What doesn't make sense is that some software (office) tampers with your preferences for a (mostly) unrelated piece of software (chrome). That is not office's responsibility.

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by lonelappde on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:52AM (#22127960)

Do you know how many years and millions of dollars the US government spent prosecuting Microsoft for their belief that " web browser is something that needs to be on every computer"?

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by Karunamon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:00AM (#22128009)

Inaccurate. Microsoft was not prosecuted for merely including IE, they were prosecuted for forcing OEMs to not include anything else (Netscape).

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by jchw on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:25AM (#22128802)

That’s, to my knowledge, a pretty big misrepresentation of the case, that from my understanding has quite a few facets.

> Microsoft would terminate Compaq's licence if it removed IE and substituted Netscape, or even if it put the Netscape icon alongside the Explorer one.

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by wizzwizz4 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:11PM (#22133346)

That sounds like the G-suite on Android.

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