Microsoft is up to some shady old tricks again with the new Bing Wallpaper app

What you need to know

• Microsoft recently released a new Bing Wallpapers app into the Microsoft Store to give us, you guessed it, wallpapers from Bing.
• However, despite its description, it looks like Microsoft is doing more than just serving up wallpapers using the app.
• Bing Search, Bing Visual Search, and a ‘helpful’ reminder in your non-Microsoft Edge default browser are all ‘features.’

Recently, Microsoft launched its Bing Wallpaper app into the Store, which, on the face of it, should be a pretty good thing. Bing serves up some of the best looking images on the web every day, and setting them as wallpapers is definitely something worth doing.

The app itself, however, seems to be concealing some shady tricks, with Microsoft trying its best to shovel its services on potentially unsuspecting users. It’s described as: