Microsoft Windows 11 App Pushes Bing as Default Search in Chrome, Firefox and Brave
Brief
Microsoft has built a dedicated Windows 11 app that exists to put Bing in front of users who already chose another search engine. The utility, Microsoft Recommended Search Settings, arrives as a standalone 22. 2 MB installer named MicrosoftSettings. exe.
It is hosted on Microsoft’s official download servers rather than Windows Update or the Microsoft Store, and its job is narrow: install a Bing extension, ask for a default-search switch, then send the user to Microsoft Rewards.
According to Windows Latest , a tester named Xeno Panther discovered the executable. During a hands-on test on a PC that was already using Google in Chrome and Brave Search in Brave, the initial screen displayed the message “Welcome to Microsoft Recommended Search Settings,” with the Bing option already set to “Yes.”
Small text said the change applies to Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.