Microsoft just got paranoid again and you may need to laugh (or weep)

Why, just the other day Microsoft tried to tease me into moving up the line for the new AI-powered Bing chat by suggesting I make Microsoft my default everything. I wanted to see whether this was an isolated Canarist pose or more widely prevalent. So I searched for Chrome using Bing. Quite literally. I just performed a search. Instantly, a large ad appeared at the top. It read: “There’s no need to download a new web browser.”