In Episode 162, Ben and Scott discuss one of the latest bad moves out of Redmond - forcefully installing the Microsoft Search in Bing extension in Google Chrome.

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Show Notes

* Extension of Microsoft Search in Bing to be installed to Office 365 ProPlus customers

* Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus

* How to exclude the extension for Microsoft Search in Bing from being installed

* How to remove the extension after it’s been installed

* The Day Microsoft Office Turned into Malware

* Office 365 ProPlus to change Chrome's default search engine to Bing in upcoming update

* Change to Bing Search for ProPlus should be opt-in only

* Google’s Five-Year Plan For GCP Has Funding Strings Attached: Report

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