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

Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by nimbius on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:35AM (#22127384)

I dont mind this feature in Firefox and Chrome, as it only happens once, and only out of the box.

Microsoft has a notorious penchant for disrespecting user preferences in favour of market share. They were known for steamrolling IE as the default after every patch of windows, so im anticipating the "bing" default to get applied every time a windows patch is rolled out as well.

Users will probably (rightly) see this behavior as an error and go back to using Chrome. Heck, it was part of a litany of chicanery that spurred the exodus from IE.

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by kop316 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:56AM (#22127516)

To tack on, they also have a very annoying penchant for changing my boot order on major updates. I dual boot Windows and Linux and default to Linux. Every major update, it defaults to Windows first.

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by pbhjpbhj on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:12AM (#22136610)

Firefox did the same recently with eg Pocket, if you'd removed it from your toolbar they added it back (and they made the plugin unremovable). Very similar behaviour IMO.

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