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  • Microsoft merges search across Windows 10, Office, Edge and Bing

    23 days ago - By Engadget

    Amid hardware updates and other announcements at Ignite 2018 Monday, Microsoft said it's releasing a string of new features to boost productivity, including one major change that will affect how you find what you're looking for. The company is unifyi...
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  • Bing is dead, long live the new, cross-platform Microsoft Search

    Bing is dead, long live the new, cross-platform Microsoft Search

    23 days ago - By Digital Trends

    Microsoft is upgrading its various search tools to provide more contextual help for those seeking it. Bing, Office, and Windows search will all be upgraded over the coming months to provide much more nuanced results.
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  • New Microsoft Search, Ideas tap AI to add smart features to Microsoft's Office 365

    New Microsoft Search, Ideas tap AI to add smart features to Microsoft's Office 365

    23 days ago - By PC World

    Smarter searches don't necessarily need to live in a search engine. This week, Microsoft will debut two tools that will live in Office: Microsoft Search and Ideas, designed to assist workers trying to dig out the document that they need, now. Microsoft hosts its Microsoft Ignite conference this week, and the company promises literally dozens of announcements-most pertaining to its Azure cloud and related services. But Microsoft also plans a few key developments at the user level, including final rollouts of features the company has announced previously, such as the ability to blur...
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  • Microsoft Search taps your personal results to battle Google

    Microsoft Search taps your personal results to battle Google

    23 days ago - By SlashGear

    Today Microsoft Search was introduced - or re-introduced - with an eye on searching everywhere, in all things, at all times. This is Microsoft's biggest effort to take on Google and its all-in integration of services, but with Microsoft's strong points. That means search in Office 365 documents as well as on-machine and on the web. “Getting pages of results...
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  • Microsoft Search will provide 'intelligent' search across Office 365 and Windows 10

    Microsoft Search will provide 'intelligent' search across Office 365 and Windows 10

    23 days ago - By The Inquirer

    But it's not replacing Bing, unfortunately
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  • Microsoft to unify search across Windows 10, Office 365 and Bing with Microsoft Search

    Microsoft to unify search across Windows 10, Office 365 and Bing with Microsoft Search

    23 days ago - By ZDnet

    Microsoft is both refining and expanding its unified search mission, so as to deliver a single smart search box across Windows 10, Office, Bing, Edge and more.
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  • Microsoft Search will power search results across Office, Windows, and more

    Microsoft Search will power search results across Office, Windows, and more

    23 days ago - By The Verge

    Microsoft is unveiling an ambitious effort to overhaul its search experience in Office, Windows, Bing and more today. Dubbed Microsoft Search, the new search experience will first start appearing on Bing and Office.com today. Bing isn't going away, but Microsoft Search is the new name for a combination of Bing and the search results you might expect to find in Windows applications. It's designed to combine traditional search results with commands, app features, and personalized results. Search is being moved to a central area in Office apps, allowing Excel users to find commands and...
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  • Microsoft's new Windows Virtual Desktop lets you run Windows 10 in the cloud

    Microsoft's new Windows Virtual Desktop lets you run Windows 10 in the cloud

    23 days ago - By TechCrunch

    There are plenty of third-party solutions for running a Windows desktop in the cloud, but until now, Microsoft itself seemed hesitant to offer the same kind of user experience. Today, however, the company announced Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure-based service that provides a full virtualized multi-user Windows 10 experience, together with Office 365 ProPlus, on Azure .
    The details here are still a bit sparse and Microsoft refused to provide any addition information ahead of the announcement. We will update this post once we hear more, though.
    What Microsoft did say, however, is that...
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  • Microsoft announces new Windows Virtual Desktop with multi-user experience support

    23 days ago - By WMPoweruser

    To meet the demands of businesses that requires a virtualized desktop experience, Microsoft is today announcing the new Windows Virtual Desktop service at Ignite 2018 conference. The new Windows Virtual Desktop based on Azure is the only cloud-based service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience. The new Windows Virtual Desktop provides the best virtualized Windows and Office...
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  • Meet Microsoft Search, a new enterprise search experience

    23 days ago - By WMPoweruser

    Last year, Microsoft first revealed the personalized search experience across Office 365. Today at Ignite 2018, Microsoft announced Microsoft Search, a new organizational search experience that will be available inside Office apps, Bing.com and Windows. Microsoft Search will allow you to find documents and data from both inside and outside the organization without leaving the...
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  • 'Microsoft Search' is a unified search experience for Microsoft 365

    'Microsoft Search' is a unified search experience for Microsoft 365

    23 days ago - By Windows Central

    A unified search experience is coming to Microsoft 365 that makes finding content within your organization super quick and simple.
    Today at Ignite 2018, Microsoft announced "Microsoft Search," a unified search experience in Microsoft 365 that enables organizations to find, navigate, and discover items within their own network. This enhances the search experiences found in Office, Windows, OneDrive, and more, turning it into a powerful tool for enterprises.
    Powered by an "AI insights engine", this new search experience connects content across Windows, Office.com, Office apps, SharePoint...
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