{"id":4304,"date":"2012-05-03T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2012-05-03T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:03:07","slug":"where-did-that-bing-toolbar-come-from-windows-updates-thats-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/where-did-that-bing-toolbar-come-from-windows-updates-thats-where\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did That Bing Toolbar Come From? Windows Updates — That’s Where"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Windows updates pushed Bing Toolbar to every Windows user as an “important” update that adds to the “stability and reliability” of Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n

Really? Since when do toolbars add\u00a0reliability\u00a0and\u00a0stability\u00a0to anything? In Microsoft’s long (and losing) battle with Google, and given Bing’s inability to compete effectively with Google’s search, Microsoft decided to give you the Bing experience whether you want it or not.<\/p>\n

Listing Bing as an “Important” update likely made Windows users feel it was necessary. It was not. It should have been an optional update but making it optional would have defeated Microsoft’s purpose of ensuring Bing was on every Windows computer.<\/p>\n

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We think that’s just plain wrong. Windows users should not be used as pawns, or soldiers, to help Microsoft wage war on a competitor. We don’t think the Bing toolbar enhances anything except for maybe Microsoft’s bottom line.<\/p>\n

Battles between competing companies are good for customers — when those battles are waged fairly customers benefit from the competition. But installing Bing as an important Windows update is just plain cheating and using all Windows users as soldiers in Microsoft’s losing battle with Google, is just plain wrong.<\/p>\n

That’s what we think. Tell us what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest Windows updates pushed Bing Toolbar to every Windows user as an “important” update that adds to the “stability and reliability” of Internet Explorer. Really? Since when do toolbars add\u00a0reliability\u00a0and\u00a0stability\u00a0to anything? In Microsoft’s long (and losing) battle with Google, and given Bing’s inability to compete effectively with Google’s search, Microsoft decided to give you the Bing experience\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}