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Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine

Posted by timothy on from the now-what-did-we-say-about-playground-behavior? dept.

BabyDuckHat writes "Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught 'Windows Search Helper' trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user's preferences to benefit its own products."

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  1. Surprise surprise... by BikeHelmet · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh wait... no it isn't.

    This is my biggest beef with Microsoft - thinking they know what you want more than you do, and installing crap on my PC(or changing preferences) without asking.

    1. Re:Surprise surprise... by fabs64 · · Score: 1, Troll

      Correct. It's more of a problem with the "bare-metal" way windows handles start menu and desktop shortcuts for applications.