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Windows 11 Wallpaper App Is Acting Like Adware for Bing

Click on the blank background, and it'll whisk you off to the search engine.
YAHOO!

Clicked on your desktop and got a Bing search out of nowhere? Windows 11 users with Bing Wallpaper are having to suffer Microsoft's promotional nonsense (again)

Windows Latest reports that an old, potentially off-putting shortcut has been reintroduced to the Bing Wallpaper app, whereby if you click anywhere on the Windows 11 desktop, a search in the (separate ...
notebookcheck

Microsoft wants Bing everywhere — new Windows 11 app targets Chrome, Firefox and Brave

The MicrosoftSettings.exe application installs the Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search browser extension and asks users to switch their default search engine to Bing. The setup screen already has the ...
digitaltrends.com

Windows 11 now has an app whose entire job is to push Bing

The app is distributed as a standalone MicrosoftSettings.exe rather than through Windows Update or the Microsoft Store. According to Windows Latest, the roughly 22.2MB installer opens with a ...