Windows 10: Windows 10 KB5060533 adds Bing feature to Calendar UI on taskbar

Windows 10 KB5060533 is June 2025’s Patch Tuesday release, with a few notable changes and fixes. The good news is that Microsoft has dropped plans to remove seconds from the Calendar flyout and is restoring the feature on PCs where it was previously removed, but there’s a catch. The Calendar UI now includes Bing integration, and it’s here to stay.

KB5060533 should download and install automatically, since it patches several security issues in the operating system. After installing today’s update, Windows 10 will bump to Build 19044.5965 if you’re on 21H2, and 19045.5965 for those on 22H2 (the last supported version of Windows).

I opened Windows Update and looked for updates, and it showed up as “2025-06 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5060533)” with an option to install, since it had already finished downloading the files. It’s a small update that takes less than two minutes to download and another two to three minutes to install.



In our tests, Windows Latest observed that the Calendar flyout (the sheet that expands from the taskbar when you tap the date and time) now shows seconds again.

It also features a new “rich experience,” according to Microsoft.

As part of this, images are now displayed for all popular events.



For example, if you open May 16th, which is International Light Day, you’ll see lightbulb icons next to the date and time in the flyout.

It looks nice, and I’m not complaining, but when you tap an event image, it performs a Bing.com search for the event name in Microsoft Edge. Your default search engine choice isn’t respected, and Windows Calendar always sends you to Bing.com in Edge.



The UI doesn’t imply that Bing is integrated into Calendar when you’re hovering over the event images or browsing events. It’s only when you tap on the event image, assuming it to be an interactive widget inside Calendar UI, that you realise it’s a Bing link in disguise.

I couldn’t find any setting to disable Bing’s event generation. This change is also not documented anywhere. Microsoft calls the update a “rich calendar experience,” and it’s the end of the story.

While Bing itself isn’t bad and I actually prefer it over Google, Microsoft’s decision to quietly sneak Bing into the Calendar flyout might not sit well with users.

This change will be turned on for users gradually after installing Windows 10 KB5060533 (June security patch).

Bing slides into Windows 10 as OS bites the OS in October


It’s also ironic because Microsoft pulled Bing out of the hat when Windows 10 has only four security updates left.

The OS loses support on October 14, 2025, unless you pay $30 for a year’s worth of extended security updates. Microsoft is urging users to make the switch.

You either keep using unprotected Windows 10, upgrade to Windows 11 or dump the OS for an alternative. But how many consumers will dump Windows for another operating system remains to be seen.

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The new option of adding Bing calendars in Windows 10 Calendar

I have just discovered this wonderful new feature of the Windows 10 Calendar app which allows you to incorporate Bing calendars showing dates and times of games for your favorite teams and competitions, air dates of your favorite shows, etc. Astonishingly
useful, and very clever improvement.

However:

• Once you add the specific Bing calendar, the entries therein become associated by default to one of my accounts that reside in the Calendar app, and I have no way of associating them to a different account. Can they be associated to a different calendar
  account by default?
• These new entries (TV shows, sports fixtures) can be color-categorized, but they can't be deleted individually unless you uncheck the entire Bing calendar that planted them in your calendar app in the first place. Which will delete all entries from that
  calendar, of course. Is there a workaround? Can they be deleted individually?
• Once I incorporate a Bing calendar to the Calendar app (albeit associated to the wrong account -- see avove,) that Bing calendar and its entries will show up in any device where I have the Calendar app and the associated account configured. For instance,
  on my Windows phone, which is great. However -- Is there a way to incorporate these Bing calendar entries to the Outlook 2016 mail client? I have the supporting account installed in it, but it is not showing the Bing Calendar entries which
  do show up in the Windows 10 Calendar app. And I tend to work more with the Outlook 2016 calendar than with the Windows 10 Calendar app.

 

Bing AI on taskbar

Hi,

R. Cord here, Independent Expert. Hope you are doing well.

Yes, that's correct. In Windows 10 version 22H2, Microsoft introduced a new feature called the "Bing AI on Taskbar". This feature adds a small icon with the Bing logo to the right side of the taskbar, near the system tray. Clicking on the icon opens up a chat window where you can ask questions and get answers powered by Microsoft's Bing search engine.

Additionally, when you perform a search using the Windows 10 search bar, the results may include a message at the top of the results page indicating the current version of Windows 10 you are using, such as "Version 22H2" or "Build xxx xx xxxx". This is just a way for you to quickly confirm the version of Windows 10 you have installed on your computer.

If you don't want to use the Bing AI on Taskbar feature:

Check steps to remove it!

Right-click on an empty space on your taskbar.

Hover your mouse over the "Search" option in the context menu that appears.

In the sub-menu that appears, select "Hidden" to hide the search bar from your taskbar.

Alternatively, you can also disable the Bing AI on Taskbar feature by following these steps:

>Click on the Bing AI icon on your taskbar.

I>n the chat window that appears, click on the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner.

>Select "Settings" from the menu that appears.

>Toggle off the "Show Bing AI on taskbar" option.

By following either of these methods, you should be able to deactivate the Bing search bar on your Windows 10 version 22H2 taskbar.

I hope it helps,

Regards,

R. Cord

 

How to add a list of National / Public Holidays to the Calendar App if the country is not listed?

Hello !

While trying to configure the Windows 10 Calendar app on the Laptop, I noticed that my country is not listed; Sri Lanka. How to add the list of Holidays for Sri Lanka? It's powered by Bing I think but what steps can I follow?