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Well, no, it's not just opening a web page. It's opening a search engine, see, and that's completely different.

/s

But I think that is in fact the difference. It's not that Microsoft wants you to use Edge for that so much, it's that they want you to use Bing for that. Edge is just so they can drive you to Bing.

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I don't get it.

Bing has been around for so long now, and it's always been mediocre. Surely it's not a profit center. Anyone have insight about that?

If so, what are they trying to gain? Is it a rogue PM at Bing or Edge or Windows shitting it up for everyone else?

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