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Microsoft Bing Wallpaper is a desktop application developed by Microsoft, designed around Bing’s Image of the Day feature. Once installed, it automatically refreshes the desktop background daily and allows users to manually switch wallpapers with a simple click. The software is actively promoted to users through Windows 10/11 and the Edge browser.
Originally, Bing Wallpaper placed an icon on the desktop to provide information about each photo’s origin and photographer. However, Microsoft’s latest update has introduced yet another irritating feature: in the newest version, clicking any empty area on the desktop now automatically opens Bing Search by default.
According to a report by Windows Latest, after installing the updated version, users are greeted with two pop-up windows. The first presents a list of features, while the second prompts users to set Bing Search as the default search engine for Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.
While these pop-ups are merely occasional, the newly added feature has proven far more intrusive — by default, clicking the desktop background may randomly trigger Bing Search to open. Tests conducted by Windows Latest revealed that this can happen several times a day, even during routine desktop interactions.
This implementation feels perplexing. If Microsoft’s intent is to let users conveniently launch Bing searches, it should not include an invisible time interval that determines whether a click opens Bing or not. The behavior instead gives the impression that Microsoft may be using the feature to artificially boost Bing’s web traffic.
In essence, by enabling this setting by default, Microsoft ensures that even unintended desktop clicks contribute to Bing’s activity metrics — a subtle but deliberate mechanism to generate additional traffic, all without the user’s consent or awareness.
Finally, Bing Wallpaper now appears to include a news module, allowing users to view Bing’s curated headlines directly within the app. This addition, reminiscent of certain domestic software that incessantly displays “news feeds,” seems primarily aimed at embedding advertisements under the guise of news recommendations.
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