Microsoft will soon make Bing the default search engine for Chrome users with Office 365 ProPlus

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Published onJanuary 22, 2020

published onJanuary 22, 2020

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Microsoft will set its Bing search engine as the default search tool in Chrome for some Office 365 ProPlus customers. Beginning in Office 365 ProPlus version 2002, the Microsoft Search in Bing will be enabled thanks to the automatic installation of the Chrome extension in beginning in February in the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K., France, German, India, and others to follow.

Microsoft wants to give business customers easier access to Microsoft Search, a tool that allows users to find workplace documents, files, sites, tools, people, and other information along with the regular web results all in the Bing search engine. Of course, Microsoft says that employees can still choose to set another search engine as their default, should they prefer.

Of course, users who already have Bing as their default search engine won’t receive the Chrome extension installed automatically,according to Microsoft’s support page.

Multiple users on bothRedditandGitHub(viaZDNet) are rather displeased with the decision, with one users of the Microsoft-owned software hosting service calling its decision “totally unacceptable in a business environment”.

Office 365 ProPlus to change Chrome’s default search engine to Bing in upcoming updatefromsysadmin

Luckily, further down the document shows usershow to keep the extension from being installed, by using either the Office Development tool or using a Group Policy. Users can also choose toremove the extension by entering a single commandas an administrator, thereby removing Bing as the default search engine.

What do you think about Microsoft’s decision? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments area below.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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