"I wondered whether Bing really moved to HTTPS because of Chrome UI changes. Then I poked it."pic.twitter.com/005JqXNif8
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so perhaps MS doesn't want to kill that "feature"?
More likely they didn't want to properly implement HSTS. Looks like it's a redirect only for Chrome on Windows. If they really wanted SSL for everyone it would at least redirect everyone.
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