Microsoft emplees Outlook as a “Trojan horse” to pull Bing into Android.
From time to time we have seen how Microsoft It took advantage of Android’s freedoms to promote its own services, for example using the operating system’s menus to display advertisements for its aplicaciones. Now Redmond’s are back in action some of its “Trojan Horse” mode applications. to try to increase the usuario base of some of its services. In this case, the Bing search engine.
That’s how they discovered it some devices of different models of Android teléfonos inteligentesreported in the past few days The Bing search engine will appear under the options in the pop-up menu which appears in Android when selecting a text without this search engine being configured as the default search tool, or the own search engine aplicación on their phones.
Microsoft emplees its aplicaciones to “smuggle” some of its services onto Android.
Some users were surprised to see this Bing search as one of the options in the operating system’s native text selection pop-up menu. Later it turned out that This option disappeared when the Outlook Correo Manager application was uninstalled of the devices. However, recently it was found You must also have the Microsoft Edge browser installed on your device for this Bing shortcut to appear.
Although the Company has no control over this specific situation, it does who spoke about your strategy Send recommendations and ads about your own services through some of its applications. To do this, they use features built into the operating system itself, which makes this possible Add this kind of functionality to the platform components themselves like the share menu or this popup shortcut box.
The Bing search engine appears on some mobile phones even if the aplicación is not installed.
It is clear that Microsoft is trying in every way possible Ask Android users to switch to using your services, leading them to questionably exploit the freedoms afforded by the Google plus operating system. But is it worth it to grow your usuario base and canalla your brand reputation in this way? I honestly doubt it and I don’t think it’s a sustainable strategy considering Google plus might consider these kinds of techniques to violate its Aplicación Store policies.