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raddevus wrote: Microsoft does NOT provide a menu item [Search Bing for "polytechnology consultant"]
Well, no - they know that nobody will ever voluntarily use it...
By the way ... if you set your default search engine to Bong, or Yahoo!, or even Ask then Chrome changes the context menu appropriately - it doesn't force you to use Bong, unlike Cortana.
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It annoys to no end that I can not uninstall Cortana.
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I just ignore it. But then I accidently use it, click the wrong thing and it fires up Edge, summons Bong, and gives me a bunch of useless results I didn't want or mean to ask it for...
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I could've sworn the very thing you're describing has just been added to Edge in a recent Insider builds. Although I have it installed, I can't be arsed to look it up right now...
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dandy72 wrote: I could've sworn the very thing you're describing has just been added to Edge in a recent Insider builds
Interesting. We are a few revisions behind on work computer so maybe it doesn't show there for that reason too.
Also, I'll be looking for my royalty check from MS.
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Don't confuse Insider builds with builds such as 1803.
Insider versions are essentially betas for vNext, and no-one in his right mind ought to run these on "work computers".
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dandy72 wrote: Don't confuse Insider builds with builds such as 1803.
dandy72 wrote: no-one in his right mind ought to run these on "work computers"
That makes sense and a good point.
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Yes, highlighting something and right clicking will bring up a menu that includes "Ask Cortana about …"
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: will bring up a menu that includes "Ask Cortana about …"
Oh, okay, I am 100% blind to cortana. Never use it. Didn't even notice that.
So they are trying to force cortana on me. Now that's the MS I know. I knew they should be forcing something or other on me. They've obviously given up on Bing and now it is this cortana thing that I need to be intent on ignoring.
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Cortana just relays the request to Bing.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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So in your original message, you're lamenting the fact that Edge doesn't have the lookup functionality that Chrome offers as a built-in feature. Turns out you can do it in Edge (via Cortana), but that's "being forced" on you?
Did I get this right?
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dandy72 wrote: Did I get this right?
No.
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Right-clicking on mine has "Bing lookup", rather than anything Cortana-ish.
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So does Opera.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I have a "Bing Lookup" option in my right click menu. I don't know why it's different - maybe it's a Group Policy thing here at work to disable Cortana.
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Dar Brett wrote: I have a "Bing Lookup" option in my right click menu
Interesting. You may have one of these newer win10 releases too. Well, it is obvious that MS hears me loud and clear and is making changes as I post.
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Is a 3.14m snake a π-thon?
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Has greater resolution 22 long / 7 wide...
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You think so two-dimensionally.
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And do foolish π-rates steal π-rites?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Fangs a lot for the post, but I'll tell you venom finished thinking it over.
If I Leslie your post, does that change the serpent to a repent?
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Thou art strangled having not constricted thy comment from slithering into the algorithmic cacophony the legless striking reptile!
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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That's Hssssss_terical.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is a 3.14m snake a π-thon? Pretty close.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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