14 DAY TRIAL // It’s not a secret that users’ experience with the search feature bundled with Windows 10 hasn’t been the best, and occasional blunders broke it down completely (as it was the case of an online search outage that happened recently and which disabled the search feature in Windows completely).
And while Microsoft is working on refining Windows Search, one potential way to deal with the whole thing for enterprises could be bringing Microsoft Search to the operating system.
Microsoft Search is the software giant’s standalone search platform that brings together search services offered across the company’s portfolio of products, technically making it easier to look for more information from a single place.
Coming later this year to Windows 10
Now the software giant says in an updated Microsoft 365 roadmap that Microsoft Search for Windows 10 is scheduled to go live in September. But of course, this would come as part of Microsoft 365.
Microsoft announced that Microsoft Search would come to Windows 10 back in September 2018, but the target at that point was the first half of 2019.
In the meantime, Microsoft Search was offered as a feature of standalone apps like SharePoint, Outlook, in Office.com and Bing.com.
“Key to delivering the Microsoft Search capability is the ability to have consistent scope of results anywhere you are searching. Even if the interface looks different, the goal is to have the same experience, personalized and contextualized for that specific interaction point,” Microsoft said.
“Our vision is a cohesive and coherent search capability, prominent in every experience, providing the way to search across all your organization’s data—both inside and outside of Microsoft 365.”
Microsoft hasn’t shared any other specifics on the debut of Microsoft Search for Windows 10, so for the time being, the aforementioned roadmap is all we got.