I can understand as a programmer Bing being used for the more interesting functions, such as tracking packages or finding business hours and that sort of thing

I can understand as a programmer Bing being used for the more interesting functions, such as tracking packages or finding business hours and that sort of thing (the tasks that never leave the Cortana window) but come on Microsoft, beyond that we both know all you're going is opening a Bing search in the browser and that's NOT complicated at all. I'm fine with Bing integration for most Cortana functions, but let us choose our own damn browser and our own damn search engine.