Basically, if you no longer wish to receive Beta builds or want to move to a lower channel, now is the time to do so. Windows 11's next major updateĪlthough we did not receive a Dev or Beta Windows Insider build this week, Microsoft has offered an off-ramp to Beta Channel users until March 8. In related news, Microsoft is steeply increasing the price of its Bing Search API for developers, find out the new rates here. An estimate indicated that the compute behind the AI-powered chat could be 10 times more expensive in terms of operational expenditure as compared to regular search engines. We also learned more about the Prometheus project powering the new Bing. The service is still not available for everyone though. Microsoft has also increased the daily limit for turns with Bing Chat to 100, a notable increase from the previous figure of 60. Speaking of Bing AI, the technology is now rolling out to more platforms such as Android and iOS - as rumored earlier -, along with the ability to converse with Bing in Skype conversations. While we are on the topic of browser security, beware of "Bing AI crypto tokens" masquerading around with Microsoft branding, they are a scam. Interestingly, it does not contain the Preview tag, despite Microsoft not having announced general availability yet. In some more positive news, Edge's built-in VPN, dubbed "Edge Secure Network", has started showing up for many users in the Stable channel. Microsoft removed the ad banners shortly after we broke the story, but the aggressive strategy to advertise its browser is now clear. Meanwhile, the other is much bigger and shows up when the download starts and helpfully informs you that "Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft". The first one is smaller and showed up when the website loaded. Google's website was injected with not one, but two ads for Microsoft Edge. Earlier in the week, we made a rather interesting but unpleasant discovery in Microsoft Edge Canary when we attempted to download Chrome through Google's website.
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