Microsoft is celebrating the holiday season in style, and what better idea, than to give its search engine’s homepage, a festive look.
Bing.com is now featuring a Christmas theme, which you can customize to a certain extend.
There is this thing with Bing, (hey that rhymes), in that the website not only offers wonderful wallpaper backgrounds, but it also features animated ones. Earlier this year, we reported how Microsoft Bing added sounds to its homepage to offer users a more immersive browsing experience.
It is these features, that have enabled Microsoft to give users a unique look for their browser, this Christmas. Head over to [...]
Do you like Microsoft Bing’s daily wallpapers? Do you want them on your PC?
If you have a Windows 10 PC, you’re in luck. There is a feature built into the operating system that serves this very purpose.
Windows 10 has a nifty little feature called Windows Spotlight. This feature allows you to customize your computer’s lockscreen wallpaper, choosing from a plethora of beautiful images from the Redmond company’s search engine service, Bing images.
By the way, this article serves as a double tutorial in that it will also teach you how to enable Windows Spotlight. Before we get into the details, allow me to clarify a trivial issue. [...]
Microsoft Bing, the second most popular search engine in the world, just added support for several Indian languages.
There was no official announcement from the Redmond company, so we can say it was rolled out silently.
This is a nice addition from Microsoft, and one which will certainly help it gain more users in the Asian country.
These are the nine Indian languages which have been added to Microsoft Bing:
हिंदी – Hindi বাংলা – Bengali తెలుగు – Telugu मराठी – Marathi தமிழ் – Tamil ગુજરાતી – Gujarati ಕನ್ನಡ – Kannada മലയാളം – Malayalam ਪੰਜਾਬੀ -PunjabiIf you reside in India, head over to [...]
With Windows 10 being out there on PCs for over 40 days, you would expect that it helped Microsoft gain a foothold in the search engine space.
Has Bing finally found a surge in its usage?
Before we analyse that, lets go through a few scenarios, on what should theoretically help Microsoft acheieve this.
Bing as the browser’s default search engine:
You may already be aware how Mozilla got mad at the fact that Windows 10 changes the default app handlers in the operating system, to the built-in ones which are the “recommended ones” by Microsoft. This causes Microsoft Edge to be set as the default browser of Windows 10. This case applies not [...]