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jrapine
Jan 23, 2020Brass Contributor
Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployOffice/microsoft-search-bing Guys... you just can't do this. It's fine if you want to develop a browser extension, but it needs to be an "opt-in." Most admin...
StaceyGerred
Jan 28, 2020Brass Contributor
Forcing the use of Bing as the default search engine, in any browser, is an over-reach of the social trust that Microsoft presents to users. Microsoft is exercising its position in the market place to to create an environment where Microsoft is the defacto software service. This is a move more often seen with less scrupulous companies.
Search engine software is invasive enough without having a large and powerful company, one who's position in the market place was 79.24% last year, making a grab for more.
I am surprised that Google Chrome is allowing this code to preempt their client's Search engine choice.