Microsoft is letting you kill Bing in Windows 11 Search, after years of forcing it on every PC
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/07/microsoft-is-letting-you-kill-bing-in-windows-11-search-after-years-of-forcing-it-on-every-pc/
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11 Comments
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 98d
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 98d
Ubuntu did have Amazon ads in their search bar for awhile.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 98d
shrugs in Linux
warm@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 98d
To replace it with Copilot no doubt at all. Come to Linux guys!
Anon518@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 98d
Now that Bing is better than Google in a lot of cases. Perhaps forcing people to use it helped them catch up.
amlor@piefed.social · 6 pts · 98d
Their market share started plunging, didn't it
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 98d
Lol. I did my part.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 98d
Finally, a reason to get Windows 11.
Handsomest_Robot@quokk.au · 3 pts · 98d
They sure did scrape just a bit of that shit off of their plate full of shit. I'm going to stay avoiding the shit plate though.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 98d
I said a reason. Not that it's enough reason.
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 98d
I might have some sliver of interest if I had a single Windows machine in my house. Not anymore. Not ever again.