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I don't know how forcing people to use another search engine is better is good news. It's not like Microsoft is giving a set of options here. The way microsoft is trying to force its products through its other products (like edge and bing in windows 10) is sad and really annoying.

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Microsoft is doing the same as Google, they set a default search engine that can be changed, instead of offering an active choice before setting a default.

Both companies behave inappropriately, but then again, actions like these are needed to highlight how choices are made for us, and to shake us out of complatence.

Actually Microsoft are installing a chrome plugin that forces the search engine to Bing so users can’t change the default back until they remove the plugin

When you install Chrome you expect the search engine to be set to Google.

When you install O365 ProPlus you sure as hell don‘t expect it to change search engine parameters in separate programs.

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