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Microsoft just locked people out of using Google with a key part of Windows 10
April 29, 2016 at 08:46
Microsoft announced on Thursday in a blog post that Cortana will now be locked into Edge and Bing, shutting out those al-ternative tools.
Every copy of Windows 10 comes with Cortana, Microsoft's virtual assistant. By default, Cortana opens links in the Microsoft Edge browser and performs searches using the Microsoft Bing search engine. It's a pretty shrewd bit of corporate synergy that's driving Bing to new heights. But that was just the default setting. With the help of some third-party tools and a minimum of fuss, you could change Cortana's browser to Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, and Cortana's search engine to whatever you want, usually Google. But not anymore. Microsoft announced on Thursday in a blog post that Cortana will now be locked into Edge and Bing, shutting out those al-ternative tools. Why the change In that blog ...
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