Mandatory Bing update. Frustration!

[steel187]

I was never a big fan of the Bing update on windows mobile. The old version lets you look for dozens of movies playing at multiple theaters, while the new one lets you look for a whopping 5, then proceeds to take you to some lame MSN website. The old bing app is user-friendly, the new one isn't.

So I chose to use the old Bing app up until now, since Microsoft will no longer let me use it, saying "We've made some improvements to Bing. To continue using the Bing app, you must update now."

This statement pretty much summarizes why Microsoft as a corporation is inevitably doomed to fail. They force their consumer to upgrade things they're comfortable using & replace it with garbage (ie XP to Vista; WM 6.5 to 7; super easy & user-friendly original Bing app to lame and inexplicably bad new Bing app).

Let me just say that their forced upgrades are great opportunities to jump ship on a sinking company. I currently have a WM 6.5 & XP laptop but my next purchases will be an Android & a Mac Book Pro.

WinMo7 has been in the works for 4+ years, the only reason I'd stay are apps from the old days like UpToDate, Garmin Mobile XT, Bing, etc. None of these will be backwards-compatible, I guarantee you UpToDate & Garmin Mobile XT will never see it to WM7 (along with Pandora, Skype & endless others), and 1-by-1 Microsoft is going out of their way to make apps like Bing on 6.5 unusable.

Is there a work around so I can still use the old app? The new ones pretty much useless to me. HTC should no longer do business with Microsoft.

[DLCPhoto]

Join the crowd:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...?prof=required

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=128794

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=128980

Bottom line at this point: Microsoft messed up Bing, reducing functionality, and there seems to be no work-around.

Go ahead and post your complaint at the thread I started at Microsoft's "support" forum: it may not change anything, but they need to know how many people they're pi$$ing off.

[jamio88]

Granted I never really use Bing, but, I really don't see why everyone is all mad about this.

I mean it still works 100% fine with what I need it for, and it still is very "touch friendly"

Updates and changes are inevitable, you just gotta go with the flow.

[DLCPhoto]

Originally Posted by jamio88

Granted I never really use Bing, but, I really don't see why everyone is all mad about this.

I mean it still works 100% fine with what I need it for, and it still is very "touch friendly"

Updates and changes are inevitable, you just gotta go with the flow.

Well, if it works for you then I guess that's all that really matters, right???

Perhaps you should actually read the threads, and see what the problem is before making statements like this.

On the Microsoft thread, there are users whose devices are no longer supported, and who thus can't even install the new Bing. So what they had has been taken away. But yeah, I guess they should just "go with the flow."

And for the rest of us, the search results for movies, restaurants, etc. are completely useless. We've gone from having a little app that could efficiently be used to check movies, movie times, etc., whereever we were, to one that is virtually useless for those functions.

I'm usually not this pointed in my replies, but I'll have to admit yours really got to me - perhaps you should re-read what you said, as well as the original complaints, and maybe you'll understand why some of us are pi$$ed at Microsoft....

[jamio88]

Originally Posted by DLCPhoto

Well, if it works for you then I guess that's all that really matters, right???

Perhaps you should actually read the threads, and see what the problem is before making statements like this.

On the Microsoft thread, there are users whose devices are no longer supported, and who thus can't even install the new Bing. So what they had has been taken away. But yeah, I guess they should just "go with the flow."

And for the rest of us, the search results for movies, restaurants, etc. are completely useless. We've gone from having a little app that could efficiently be used to check movies, movie times, etc., whereever we were, to one that is virtually useless for those functions.

I'm usually not this pointed in my replies, but I'll have to admit yours really got to me - perhaps you should re-read what you said, as well as the original complaints, and maybe you'll understand why some of us are pi$$ed at Microsoft....

Well excuse the hell out of me for stating what I think about Bing. Seriously, could you be a bigger baby? Honestly, I want to know......

and I never said "Don't be pissed at Microsoft", I myself am also jumping ship from M$ and going to the Android side (getting an Evo). However like I said, these changes are still inevitable and nothing you do or say is going to stop them

So why even bother getting pissed about it? Seriously, no matter how many threads you start or how hard your hit the keys while typing your rants, NOTHING is going to stop this s**t from happening.

At the end of the day you are left with TWO options. Either:

A) Suck it up and get use to the new system
B) Jump ship and go to Android

That is all there is to it. End of story. Good day.

and for the record, I looked over his post (and mine) over and over again, and I will STILL stand by what I said the first time.

[DLCPhoto]

Originally Posted by jamio88

Well excuse the hell out of me for stating what I think about Bing. Seriously, could you be a bigger baby? Honestly, I want to know......

and I never said "Don't be pissed at Microsoft", I myself am also jumping ship from M$ and going to the Android side (getting an Evo). However like I said, these changes are still inevitable and nothing you do or say is going to stop them

So why even bother getting pissed about it? Seriously, no matter how many threads you start or how hard your hit the keys while typing your rants, NOTHING is going to stop this s**t from happening.

At the end of the day you are left with TWO options. Either:

A) Suck it up and get use to the new system
B) Jump ship and go to Android

That is all there is to it. End of story. Good day.

and for the record, I looked over his post (and mine) over and over again, and I will STILL stand by what I said the first time.

I have no problem with people sharing their experience/opinion, but it's the implication that somebody else's is therefore less valid that ticked me off. Just because the change doesn't cause you any problems doesn't mean that others might not be justifiably upset because they lost functionality they used to have and enjoy. Maybe that wasn't your intent, but that's how it came across.

As for what impact these posts will or won't have:

1. It's always possible that somebody might have figured out a work-around.

2. It's also possible, though not likely, that Microsoft will actually listen to the feedback from its users, and provide an option to continue to use the old Bing - for those who prefer the original version, or those whose devices have been orphaned, and aren't even given the option to use the new Bing.

[SporkLover]

Originally Posted by jamio88

I myself am also jumping ship from M$ and going to the Android side (getting an Evo).

This is the funniest comment you've made in the thread so far.

The next funniest is considering a newer version of an app an "upgrade" even though it has less functionality.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by jamio88

I mean it still works 100% fine with what I need it for
.

So the hell with everybody else, right??

~John

[rebelx]

i've noticed that my entire phone seems to be running slower after the mandatory update. texts take forever to open (even after clearing them all out) and i've even installed bing on the memory card instead of phone memory. what gives?!

[jamio88]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

So the hell with everybody else, right??

~John

Once again, sorry that I posted MY ****ING THOUGHTS on the matter. I thought this was a post where we posted what WE THOUGHT. You know "We" as in all of US. Jesus Christ.

Maybe (most of) you should just change your tampons and get over it. I never said to hell with anyone else or any of the other stupid shit you people all want to bitch about.

Stop being a bunch of nit picking nerdy ass babies and GROW UP!!!!!!!