Subj : Microsoft seemingly wont give up pushing Bing AI onto Windows 11
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Jul 17 2023 11:45:03

Microsoft seemingly wont give up pushing Bing AI onto Windows 11 users

Date:
Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:29:07 +0000

Description:
Testers are getting annoyed by taskbar pop-ups urging them to use Microsofts 
Bing chatbot.

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 Windows 11 is continually badgering folks to use Microsofts Bing AI in test 
builds of the operating system, it may not come as much of a surprise to 
hear. 

PhantomOfEarth pointed out on Twitter that this is happening in preview 
versions of Windows 11  most notably the Beta channel  and as you can see, 
the pop-up springs from the search box on the taskbar, urging users to launch 
Bing AI from that part of the interface. Go away. pic.twitter.com/rWCtq5NyyZ 
July 15, 2023 See more 

It's an annoying nag to use the AI, and whats more, the Twitter leaker notes 
that there doesnt appear to be any obvious way of telling Windows 11 that 
these pop-ups are unwanted. 

Or rather, PhantomOfEarth clarifies that there are two buttons to get it to 
go away but that even after using those, it tends to pop up occasionally with 
no way to turn it off (afaik). 

Another Twitter user suggests there may be another way to switch it off under 
notifications, which PhantomOfEarth says theyll try, but we didnt hear 
anything about that being successful since the tweet at the weekend. 

So, the jurys still out on that, but whatever the case, it looks like this 
nag isnt an easy one to rid yourself of  if you can get rid of it at all. 
Analysis: This pop-up just doesnt make a lot of sense 

As we already observed, Microsoft trying to push Bing AI is no surprise from 
a general point of view (the software giant has been working hard to improve 
the AI , and doubtless wants a lot of eyeballs on it). Indeed, of late, 
Microsoft has been trying all sorts of angles for recruiting more users to 
its various services, whether thats the Bing chatbot, or OneDrive to pick a 
couple of obvious examples. (OneDrive has recently been promoted via badging 
in the Start menu  basically just ads veiled as suggestions). 

Whats a bit odd here is seeing this rather persistent prompt for Bing AI 
kicking around in the taskbar when Copilot has just been introduced in 
testing. 

As youre likely aware, Windows Copilot is essentially the Bing AI dropped 
into the heart of Windows 11 (in a side panel), complete with additional 
abilities to intelligently adjust Windows settings (there arent many of those 
to begin with, though). 

So, with Copilot on the horizon  and due in the 23H2 update, according to 
some rumors (were not convinced its at all ready, mind)  why mess around with 
search box prompts for Bing AI at this point? Especially when the possibly 
close-to-launch Copilot has full integration into Windows 11. 

It doesnt make a lot of sense to us, particularly when  as you can see from 
PhantomOfEarths reaction in the above tweet  this is annoying testers right 
now. 

Were hoping, then, that this is a piece of experimentation in test builds 
that Microsoft will soon do away with. That said, we cant say the same about 
the ads already in place with Copilot in testing 



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-seemingly-wont-give-up-p
ushing-bing-ai-onto-windows-11-users


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