MrPopo wrote:If you dig into the advanced settings you can add google as your default search provider. And I set my browser to land on google as my home page and new tabs to open a blank window.
Oh I saw how to do that opening up edge and going to google.com then adding it as my search choice. I was thinking of through cortana where if you want to find something, she pops it up inside of bing.com every time. I can't seem to find a way to change that and it may be she's just tied to bing as some stories say you can't kill one without taking cortana out with it.
I'm very sure you can take out Bing without taking out Cortana.
I'm also in the Bing camp though, it's very akin to Google in search results, plus you get rewards points for free money (Amazon GC, Xbox GC, etc.), it's really win/win.
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended...so the world might be mended.
so I'm an idiot and forgot that I never reserved my upgrade ticket or whatever. So I did that last night on my laptop. I'll upgrade as soon as I can.
I'll wait a few weeks on the desktop to be sure nothing game-breaking (pun intended) has popped up.
Stark wrote:
I'm also in the Bing camp though, it's very akin to Google in search results, plus you get rewards points for free money (Amazon GC, Xbox GC, etc.), it's really win/win.
Yeah I used to use Bing for that same reason. Switched to Google mostly for the convenience of sharing stuff easily between phone/PC/laptop/tablet... but eh, I might just leave Bing default on Win10 because getting free store credit is always sweet.
I've got Win 10 Pro on one of my laptops. It seems pretty snappy. Much more intuitive for me then 8 was. I like the new icons. Everything's gone smooth except I got a weird error when I was installing some of my PLC engineering software. I'm working on figuring out what that error code meant. Also when installing Win 10 Pro I chose custom and disabled a lot of online end user reporting information Microsoft requests from the OS if you don't disable it. That's a bit too invasive for me and also even more services I don't need running in the background.
Here is some info on how to redirect Bing searches to Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo. Only works if Chrome is your default browser. Down in the comments section, someone linked a Firefox script that redirects to Google.
What's this gift card stuff with Bing? I didn't know they were bribing people to use their search tool. That is kind of nice, same reason why I do google surveys because I can then buy cool games/apps on my tablet for free. I've got over $9 on there now, would have had 2 more but I grabbed both Duck Tales and GTA Chinatown wars for $1 each. If I end up with $15 within a month I'll use the dough to grab the 1/2 off table season 1 on my tablet for Pinball Arcade.
Also discovered they really went nuts with the phone apps stuff on Win10 so I added Netflix last night which was fantastic watching Running Man with.
Tanooki wrote:What's this gift card stuff with Bing?
You get Bing Rewards points for doing searches. There are also specializes searches every day that get you points if you do them, sometimes just an interesting factoid, other times a trivia game. Once you have a certain number of points, like 290 for $3 in Xbox money or 465 for $5 in Xbox money, you redeem it and they send you a code. Simple as that. Bribing people, as you say, is why they do it, but I found that it's the same search and it gets me something, so why would I change? People who think Bing sucks are either biased or don't use it. If you do use it, use my Refer A Friend: https://www.bing.com/explore/rewards?PU ... d60109c9e6
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended...so the world might be mended.
Tanooki wrote:What's this gift card stuff with Bing?
You get Bing Rewards points for doing searches. There are also specializes searches every day that get you points if you do them, sometimes just an interesting factoid, other times a trivia game. Once you have a certain number of points, like 290 for $3 in Xbox money or 465 for $5 in Xbox money, you redeem it and they send you a code. Simple as that. Bribing people, as you say, is why they do it, but I found that it's the same search and it gets me something, so why would I change? People who think Bing sucks are either biased or don't use it.
Back when there was Netscape in the early days of the Internet, Microsoft wiped them out with Internet Explorer built into Windows as the default explorer. Years later there is now Mozilla, Google Chrome and others preventing the monopoly.
Windows 10 is free due to increase of Android Tablet market at which Microsoft attempted the "Cell Phone" swipe screen which just does not work. Windows 10 brings back the Start Button.
Bing bonus points is just Microsoft trying to take over the search engine from Google. Well, competition always a good thing as long as Bing does not cause Google to fold under years from now.
Wasn't Netscape (or browsers in general) paid back in the early days? I don't remember very well now, but if so making it "free" with a (paid) OS was a solid move by Microsoft, although I do agree it was done not to be nice to customers but to try to kill off competition (and they did lose some lawsuits at some stage about it, if I recall).
Google is huge by now and can handle competition. In terms of search engines it is certainly Google that has the de facto monopoly.
And Android OS market share is pretty big as well because they go in phones and tablets, whereas Windows on mobile devices is still a very small market share despite Windows 8 being all touch-friendly.
Indeed Windows 10 being free and these Bing rewards looks like a direct reaction to Google's OS and dominance in search engine.
