Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
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Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#2If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#3Better, more comprehensive article:
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#4If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?
Indeed...
Article says: > It is rather sad to see that Microsoft is implementing behaviors in some of its apps that is generally only found in malware apps.
Mate, have you seen their OSes?
Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license, where it's possible to disable more of its telemetry.
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#5I thought that Windows 10 or 11 Explorer/desktop settings had the ability to get a “photo of the day” for the desktop background?
Or is that only for the Lock Screen
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#6On GNOME one been using https://github.com/neffo/bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension and it doesn't seem to contain any malware.
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#7‘It would be annoying to consistently push people to using Bing, so lets detect whether they are already using Bing in a browser by decrypting cooking.’
Instead of, you know, not pushing Bing
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#8If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?
I have disabled windows 10 updates because of their behavior, no way in hell will I ever use windows 11.
What is Microsoft thinking? If they can’t get windows right why would I put my business in Microsoft’s hands with Azure?
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#9If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?
Indeed... Article says: > It is rather sad to see that Microsoft is implementing behaviors in some of its apps that is generally only found in malware apps. Mate, have you seen their OSes? Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license, where it's possible to disable more of its telemetry.
> Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license
Any pointers on how to approach that?
Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app
#10I actually really like bing wallpaper content. It’s unfortunate Microsoft has screwed up the rest of it so bad