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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by julian on Saturday April 30 2016, @03:31AM

    by julian (6003) on Saturday April 30 2016, @03:31AM (#339317)

    So I must confess, I use Windows 10 currently on one of my main computers. I play a few GPU-heavy AAA games that don't run on Linux at all. Windows 10 is the easiest way to get a legit copy of Windows right now since you can just download it for free and make an officially supported installer USB. No risk of infected torrent ISOs and you save hundreds of dollars. I have an officially supported Win10 Pro for free. Hard to beat since I still need it to play games.

    I took one look at that stupid search box and looked for a way to disable it. I found Destroy Windows Spying [github.com] which takes care of a lot of issues with Windows 10 in one program.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @04:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @04:14AM (#339336)

    One thing you can't destroy is their intent to spy on you. You're one Windows update away from a "fix" for your transgressions.

    • (Score: 2) by julian on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:32AM

      by julian (6003) on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:32AM (#339351)

      Absolutely, and there's no way to get away from this with Windows/Microsoft. There's no privacy/security reason to prefer Windows 7 over Win10 if you are accepting security updates--which is the only safe way to use a Windows OS connected to the Internet. If you want real safety and security you get away from Windows, which is why I only boot into it to shitpost and play video games.

    • (Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:56AM

      by tftp (806) on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:56AM (#339367) Homepage

      One thing you can't destroy is their intent to spy on you.

      Airgap works fine.