Windows 11's new internet speed test is just a link to Bing.com in a move that smacks of laziness and overzealous promotion

• Windows 11's latest update has introduced an internet speed test
• This functionality lives in a submenu in the taskbar
• However, it's not a native tool, but simply a link to a web speed test – one that opens in Bing.com

Microsoft has introduced a new internet speed test with the latest update for Windows 11, but it likely doesn't work as you'd expect.

Windows Latest reports that the speed test is now live with the March update, and it sits in a submenu of the Windows 11 taskbar. However, it isn't an integrated part of the operating system – it's merely a link to Bing.

This is the 'Perform speed test' option – which you'll see when you right click the Wi-Fi (or Ethernet) icon in the system tray – and what happens when you select it is that Windows 11 opens ...