- Windows 10 has a new update that adds a couple of features
- Unfortunately, one of these focuses on promoting Bing and Edge
- Microsoft is pressing its search engine and browser through the calendar panel outside the taskbar
Windows 10 has a new update and actually presents a new feature, although you may want you not to do so when you discover what this latest incorporation is.
That said, the newly released update for June (which is KB5060533 for Windows 10 22h2) comes with an adjustment that could lift a smile, namely that the clock in the taskbar now shows the second when clicking to see the time in the calendar panel.
Why Microsoft abandoned that in the first place is beyond me, but anyway, although that could be a pleasant performance of a feature for some, there is a bite in the tail below in said Flyout calendar, that is, that Bing has infiltrated the mixture here.
Not openly, mind, but as Windows Last explains, there has been a change in the lower section of the calendar panel where you will normally see your own events or reminders, if you have any. If it does not, this used to be blank, but from the June update you will see popular public events and its dates.
Of course, almost every day they are now dedicated to something, for example, today, on June 11, it is ‘National Corn on Cubiza’s Day’ (apparently), and the reminders of these events will now appear in the calendar panel.
How Bing Figure in this? Well, if you click on this event, you will get information about it … wait … yes, bing search engine. And what web browser will that appear? Microsoft Edge, of course. Why promote a service, when you can promote two, after all?
ANALYSIS: Why risk kissing?
This is a bit cunning, since it is far from being clear that he is invoking Bing and Edge when he clicks something on the Flyout calendar out. In addition, this happens despite the preferences of Windows 10 that you have chosen for your predetermined search or browser engine, which is again an unwanted turn.
This is the type of behavior that negatively impacts Microsoft’s reputation and does not help the adjustment not to be mentioned in the update notes. They only tell us that the June patch provides a “experience in rich calendar” (well, it is making someone rich, or at least a little richer, possibly, but not you).
The kicking here is that Windows 10 is just four months after a dead operating system is declared, with its eliminated life support (unless you pay additional security patches for an additional year). So why do you even bother to make changes like this when Windows 10 faces its final curtain? Why take any risk that may cause reputation damage?
Well, a thought occurs: maybe Microsoft is not convinced that the floods of people will leave Windows 10 when the deadline of end of life in October 2025 comes. After all, an alarmingly considerable amount of ministers still clings to the oldest operating system. In which case, perhaps Microsoft sees the value and value of still disturbing Windows 10 users for the predictable ones, while they are paying for the support or risking their pc without blinking that is compromised while refusing (or cannot) update to Windows 11.
Oh good. At least we have the seconds back on the calendar watch screen, Hurray.
