Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?

Better, more comprehensive article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;bing_wallpaper_app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;bing_wallpaper_app&#x2F;</a>

I thought that Windows 10 or 11 Explorer&#x2F;desktop settings had the ability to get a “photo of the day” for the desktop background?<p>Or is that only for the Lock Screen

‘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.’<p>Instead of, you know, not pushing Bing

I actually really like bing wallpaper content. It’s unfortunate Microsoft has screwed up the rest of it so bad

On GNOME one been using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neffo&#x2F;bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neffo&#x2F;bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension</a> and it doesn&#x27;t seem to contain any malware.