- Windows 10 has a new update that adds some features
- Unfortunately, one of them focuses on the promotion of Bing and Edge
- Microsoft pushes its search engine and browser via the task bar schedule
Windows 10 has a new update and it actually introduces a new feature – although you may want you to find out what the latter adds.
That said, the fresh update released for June (which is KB5060533 for Windows 10 10:2 p.m.) is delivered with an adjustment that could make you smile, namely that the clock in the taskbar now displays seconds when click to see the time in the calendar panel.
Absolutely why Microsoft abandoned this first of all exceeds me, but in any case, although it can be a pleasant return of a functionality for some, there is a bite in the tail lower in said flyout of the calendar – namely that Bing has slipped into the mixture here.
Not openly, Mind, but as Windows explains last, there was a change in the lower section of the calendar panel where you normally see your own events or reminders-if you have them, that is to say. If you don’t, it was empty, but from the June update, you will see popular public events and their dates.
Of course, almost every day is now dedicated to something – for example, today, on June 11, the “ Corn national on the day of COB ” (apparently) – and the reminders of these events will now appear in the calendar panel.
How does Bing appear there? Well, if you click on the said event, you will get information about it in … wait for it … Yes, the bing search engine. And in which web browser will it appear? Microsoft Edge, of course. Why promote a service, when you can promote two, after all?
Analysis: Why risk the desire?
It is a bit sneaky because it is far from clear that you invoke Bing and Edge when you click on something on the calendar pane by curiosity. In addition, this happens despite the preferences of Windows 10 that you have chosen for your search engine or your default browser, which is again an unwanted turn.
This is the type of behavior that has a negative impact on Microsoft’s reputation and it does not help that the tweak is not mentioned in the update notes. We are only told that the June patch offers a “rich calendar experience” (well, it makes someone rich, or at least a little richer, perhaps – but not you).
The botter here is that Windows 10 is only four months after being declared a dead operating system, with its support for life (unless you pay additional security fixes for an additional year). So, why even the trouble to make changes like this when Windows 10 faces its latest curtain? Why take risks from everything that could cause reputation damage?
Well, a thought occurs: maybe Microsoft is not convinced that the floods of people will leave Windows 10 when the end of life deadline takes place in October 2025. After all, an alarming number of pure hard time always clings to the older operating system. In this case, Microsoft may see the value and value in Windows 10 users still foreseeable, while they remain in payment of care, either by risking that their uncharted PC is compromised while refusing (or by being unable) to go to Windows 11.
Too bad. At least we have the seconds on the display of the calendar clock, Hurra.
