Feb 12, 2020 16:00:00

Microsoft withdraws the new specification of Office 365 that `` forces the search engine of Chrome to Bing ''

The company said that it had received a lot of criticism of Microsoft's attempt to add an extension to the Office 365 ProPlus installer to `` force Chrome's search engine to Bing ''. He acknowledged and announced that he would withdraw the introduction schedule.

Update to Microsoft Search in Bing through Office 365 ProPlus-Microsoft Tech Community-1161030
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365-blog/update-to-microsoft-search-in-bing-through-office-365-proplus/ba-p/1161030

Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus | Microsoft Docs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/microsoft-search-bing

Office365 Pro Plus won't hijack your search engine after all | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/office365-pro-plus-wont-hijack-your-search-engine-after-all/

Office 365 ProPlus is a set pack of Office products such as Word, Exel and Powerpoint. What Microsoft was trying to add to such an Office 365 ProPlus installer is a Chrome extension called ' Microsoft Search in Bing quick access ' that has the function of 'forcing Chrome's default search engine to Bing.' The company says that `` by making Bing the default search engine, enterprise users using Chrome will be able to use Microsoft Search features such as direct access to work information from the browser address bar. '' Was trying to push the introduction of.

Microsoft is trying to forcibly change Chrome's default search to Bing via the Office 365 installer-gigazine

According to Microsoft, after announcing the addition of Microsoft Search in Bing quick access to Office 365 ProPlus, users said, `` We are excited to see how Office 365 ProPlus makes it easy to spread the value

Microsoft Search offers through Bing. Many people have said.

However, at the same time, there seems to be a voice to Microsoft saying `` Please stop adding such functions '', and Microsoft made a choice whether to add the extension in question when installing Office 365 ProPlus, and furthermore the default setting To 'Do not install the Microsoft Search in Bing quick access extension.'

According to Ars Technica who reported this case, at present, even if the IT administrator of the company has set `` Install the extension '', if Microsoft Search in Bing quick access is installed only on devices under Active Directory. That.

Also, even if Microsoft Search in Bing quick access is installed in Chrome, a toggle button that can turn on and off the setting to make Bing the default search engine is displayed as shown in the image below.

The uninstallation method is that in the case of Windows 10, it is possible to select 'Apps' from 'Windows settings' and delete Microsoft Search in Bing quick access from the list of 'Apps and features'.

Regarding the reason that Microsoft is trying to push Bing, Microsoft releases an image image that will display internal information such as `` employee profile '' and `` vacation schedule '' of the employee when searching for the employee's name in Bing doing.

Ars Technica prefaces `` To be fair to Microsoft '' and wrote `` This screenshot looks quite useful '', but `` In this image employee profile etc. Active Directory user information It's unclear whether Bing will support spreadsheets, web forms, third-party scheduling tools, etc. that are used in actual companies, and if it does not support it Then the value of Microsoft Search for Bing will be halved. '