Microsoft is wasting no time bringing its latest AI-powered Bing to all of its products. After introducing it in its Edge browser after which bringing it to the Edge, Bing and Skype apps on mobile, today it’s Windows 11’s turn to welcome the brand new Bing to its taskbar.

This is an element of a significant Windows 11 upgrade that also includes the primary preview of Phone Link for iOS, which can let you’re taking calls and reply to messages out of your iPhone in your Windows PC, tabs within the default Notepad app, and has latest energy recommendations, a redesigned Quick Assist app to make it easier to remotely assist your parents with their computer problems, and more.

Should you’re a Windows 11 user, you might be surely conversant in the search box that’s integrated into the taskbar by default. That’s where you’ll now find the brand new Bing, waiting to your questions and unwilling to speak about itself.

As Microsoft notes, with over half a billion monthly users, the search box is one of the crucial widely used features in Windows. That’s some very outstanding placing for the brand new Bing. Indeed, the Bing search engine with its low single-digit market share, likely has fewer monthly users than that. To access the brand new Bing, you continue to must get on the waitlist (if you happen to haven’t done so yet), so not every Windows 11 user will get access straight away.

It’s no secret that Microsoft needed to endure quite a little bit of criticism since Bing was first launched earlier this month. In some ways, this felt like a rushed release, but to Microsoft’s credit, lots of the issues that Bing’s early users found have since been fixed. It’s also one thing to make use of the Bing chatbot to get some sort of adversarial response from it — while it’s a completely different experience to make use of it to assist together with your day-to-day searches. But we obviously must explore the sting cases and Microsoft should’ve clearly done more of that itself before launching it. At this point, Microsoft has reined the bot in an excessive amount of. It’s tremendous that it doesn’t wish to speak about itself — it’s no politician, in any case — but with only six turns in every conversation, I always reach a degree within the conversation where I’m exploring an interesting topic and it just shuts me down (or it would ask me if I would like a recipe for something — and it really likes to ask questions itself now — and after I tell it that I do, it ghosts me…).

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As for the preview of Phone Link for iPhone, it’s value noting that this remains to be a really limited preview that may only be available to users who opt in to the Windows 11 Insider release channels — and even then, it’ll only roll out to a limited variety of testers for now. I’ve been using the Android version for quite some time now and it’s been very solid, with messages, calls and alerts all popping up on my desktop. That’s what the app guarantees to do and that’s what it delivers. We are going to, in fact, must see if the iOS version works just as well.