32 PCWorld MARCH 2020NEWS
IMAGE: MICROSOFTMicrosoft walks back plans to
switch Chrome search to Bing
for Office 365 customers
Microsoft may think it’s helping, but really, what gives them the right? BY MARK HACHMANI
n what seems like a broad case of
overreaching, an upcoming version of
Microsoft’s Office 365 for enterprises will
automatically switch Google Chrome’s
search engine to Bing. And Firefox is next on
the list.
Yes, Google Chrome. Yes, Bing. Microsoft
says it’s doing so to enable Microsoft Search
(go.pcworld.com/mssr), which essentiallyevolves the Bing search engine into a way to
delve through your corporate files and other
information. But still, altering another
company’s search engine to do so?
(We reached out to Google for comment, but
the company hadn’t responded by
press time.)
Microsoft laid out its plans in a support
document (go.pcworld.com/mpln) that