Desktop click leads to Bing: Microsoft’s wallpaper app resembles adware
Microsoft has been offering a Bing wallpaper app for several years, which, among other things, is able to bring a new wallpaper to the host system’s desktop every day. Now you make the software behave like adware.
Desktop click leads to Bing.com
Who the Bing wallpaper app used, actually just wants to bring a breath of fresh air to his desktop every day, as the program can not only provide a colorful selection of attractive background images in the form of photos, but can also exchange them daily if desired. As Windows Latest now noticed, Microsoft has recently made a change through which the daily changing background images can serve as a kind of display for the search engine Bing.com. If you click on a screen background provided by the wallpaper app on the empty desktop, a browser window opens in which Bing.com is loaded with a search query for the respective motif.
Once in 24 hours, but cannot be switched off
According to the report, this behavior occurs once every 24 hours, so Microsoft seems to be aware that users of the Bing Wallpaper app might find this annoying. About a year ago they experimented with an identical behavior, but there is a crucial difference in the new integration of the “Desktop click opens Bing” function. While a year ago it was still possible to deactivate the function in the wallpaper app settings, this option is completely missing in the latest version.
In addition, Microsoft has now modified the app so that it displays a pop-up window that offers to change the default search engine in all installed browsers to Bing. The latest edition of the Bing wallpaper app also has an option built in that allows you to specifically ensure that AI-generated images are displayed as a background on the desktop. The app’s appeal lies in the fact that Microsoft acquires the rights to high-quality images from photographers who work for publishers such as National Geographic.
Amit Gohar is Technical writer at ResearchSnipers.com, he is well versed Technology News writer, he has completed is MS computer Science in 2020. He can be reached at amit.g@researchsnipers.com
