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Microsoft Declares Cortana Search box as Bing- and Edge-Only Turf

posted by martyb on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:23AM   
from the get-off-my-lawn! dept.

Nollij writes:

From ComputerWorld:

Microsoft on Thursday began blocking rival browsers and search providers from using Windows 10's Cortana search box, the operating system's prime search real estate.

While Gavin didn't name names, Mozilla's Firefox modified Windows 10 so that when that browser was made the operating system's default, Firefox's selected search provider generated results from in-Cortana queries, with the ensuing pages appearing in Firefox, not Edge. Other browsers, such as Google's Chrome, did not go that far, but third-party extensions available in the Chrome Web Store did.

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• Number of fucks given = 0; Number of fucks given = 0; (Score: 4, Insightful) by Kilo110 on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:45AM

  by Kilo110 (2853) on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:45AM (#339295)

  Great. Even more reason for me to continue ignoring Cortana.

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• Re:Number of fucks given = 0; (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday April 30 2016, @03:48AM

  by frojack (1554) on Saturday April 30 2016, @03:48AM (#339321) Journal

  My thoughts exactly.

  Reminds me of a song from The Mikado. "She never will be missed".

  Even on the one machine I have that does have it installed I never use it to find anything other than settings and controls that Microsoft buried so deeply in Windows 10 that you need a search agent to find them.

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  No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.

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• Re:Number of fucks given = 0; (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday April 30 2016, @11:20PM

  by linkdude64 (5482) on Saturday April 30 2016, @11:20PM (#339618)

  If you don't have it ripped out entirely, it's certainly not ignoring what you're up to.

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