It's the default on a number of platforms. Have you encountered the argument that the terrible spelling and grammar on scam emails is a form of screening only the most likely to engage? I think we can safely assume that the most likely people to fall for a scam are hanging out with the default search engine their platform gave then.
If you hover over links on the post, you would notice that the author recently changed jobs, from Google to Microsoft. It seems reasonable for a Microsoft employee to use Bing as primary search ;)
Anyhow, I'm disappointed that Bing also has the practice of styling ads the same was search results, as Google has normalized.
Actually I never been employed by any of them, I referred to switching because as a lifelong Google user I was now switching to MS for online services. I will clarify that in the post!
They're also doing user telemetry at any cost, also led by google. MS is not a software company any more.
Why would someone call “InPrivate” browsing mode a “new feature of edge” when it’s built in to chromium?
Well, to word it like that says it's new to edge, not a new feature worldwide. When Apple came out with the Apple Pencil fro iPads, it wasn't the first stylus, but it was new for Apple.
It's not new to Edge. The branding carries over from the original Edge's InPrivate mode.
The article just calls it a feature of the “new Edge browser”.