Same Spots. Same Leopard.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.I asked a question back in March: can a user-hostile leopard change its spots? I was cautiously, skeptically willing to entertain the possibility. Microsoft had made noises about pulling Copilot back from its most obnoxious outposts. Pavan Davuluri said some words. I covered my skepticism in detail and left the verdict open.Verdict's in.Same spots. Same leopard.Windows Latest confirmed it this week — fresh screenshots, InPrivate mode, May 2026 — that Bing is still running a spoofed Google homepage. Right now. Today. Eighteen months after the story supposedly ended.Here's the full arc, because the revisionism matters.Windows Latest first caught it on January 6th, 2025. Type "Google" into Bing while logged out of a Microsoft account, and instead of search results you got a costume: an all-white page, a centered unlabeled search bar, a colorful illustrated doodle heavy on yellow, red, blue, and green — the exact palette of a Google…