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Rewards. How much does Microsoft want you to use its Bing

search page instead of Google, and its Edge browser instead of
Chrome? Enough to bribe you. For every search you do in a day
using Bing, you earn five Rewards points. You also get five points
an hour for using the Edge browser. You can also get points by

buying stuff from the Microsoft Store. Earn enough points, and you
can cash in for an Amazon or Starbucks gift card, Xbox and

Windows gift cards, Microsoft Store gift cards, and more. Anyway,
here’s the dashboard for your progress.

Privacy. Here’s your chance to see much of the data Microsoft has

collected about you—search history, browsing history, locations,
voice-command history, movie and TV watching, and so on—and,
if you like, to delete it. Of course, almost everybody realizes that

these big tech companies track our actions. But to see all of your
data here, date-stamped, shivering and naked—well, it gives one

pause.

Security. Change your password, change your other credentials,
see where you’ve signed in recently.

Here, too, is your opportunity to delete your Microsoft account—
for example, when you buy that Mac you’ve always wanted. (Joke!
That’s a joke.)

To do that, choose “More security options”; sign in; scroll down;
and choose “Close my account.” You’ll be guided through the
process of closing down your association with Microsoft. (What do

you want to do about your subscriptions? Your leftover account
balance? Your kid accounts?)

Seven Ways to Sign In

As you know from Chapter 1, which you’ve carefully memorized, you can
sign into your account using any of several methods (Figure 18-5). Typing