Microsoft sinks to new lows with Bing Wallpaper 'feature' in Windows 11 that'll either confuse or annoy you

• Microsoft has sneaked a new feature into the Bing Wallpaper app
• This enacts a Bing search when you click on the Windows 11 desktop
• It'll likely confuse people – or annoy them – seeing as this is unexpected and odd behavior, and the functionality is on by default

Those who use the Bing Wallpaper app – which isn't installed in Windows 11 by default, I should clarify – are being treated to a fresh piece of nuisance behavior.

Windows Latest reports that Bing Wallpaper now fires up a Bing search in your web browser if you click anywhere on the Windows 11 desktop, in one of the more bizarre moves Microsoft has made to promote its search engine.

The search pertains to the subject of the desktop background that the Bing app is displaying, in case you want to learn more about it. But obviously it's a ...