Microsoft To Unify Search Across Windows 10, Office 365 and Bing with Microsoft Search (zdnet.com)

Microsoft has a new 'North Star' for search: One, unified, smart search box that will span Windows, Office, Bing and more. From a report: For the past several years, Microsoft been working to unify and personalize its search experience across Office 365. But now the company is going a step further and bringing Windows 10 the same search experience. At Ignite last year, Microsoft said its holy grail for search was to enable people to search from wherever they were without interrupting their workflow. Bing for Business -- a way to turn Bing into an Intranet search service -- also debuted last year. At this year's Ignite, Microsoft is refining and expanding that search mission. Microsoft's plan is to put the search box "in a consistent, prominent place across Edge, Bing, Windows and Office apps, so that search is always one click away." The company also is "supercharging" the search box so that users can more easily find people, related content, commands for apps and more before they actually start typing in the search box, as it will be contextually aware and offer proactive search results and suggestions. Today, September 24, Microsoft is starting to roll out a preview of this Microsoft Search feature to Office.com, Bing.com (where it's no longer called Bing for Business, but, instead Microsoft Search in Bing) and the SharePoint Mobile app. Microsoft Search will be coming to Edge, Windows and other versions of Office in the coming months, going into 2019.

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Get the basics right first

[Anonymous Coward]

The company also is "supercharging" the search box so that users can more easily find people, related content, commands for apps and more

Can't they make it find content before looking for related content? Because the Windows 10 search function is just awful. "Broken" is not an unfair description when it refuses to find installed programs or files with the name typed exactly.

Learning to use Linux as a daily driver on my laptop has been a bit painful but it's nothing compared to my experiences with Win10.

SLOW

[TheDarkener]

I know I'm not the only one, please chime in if the same thing happens to you:

1) Click on Win10 start menu
2) Wait
3) Wait some more...
4) .....
5) Watch little lemmings cobble together a start menu tile by tile
6) Type something to start searching your PC
7) Wait....
8) Listen to your HDD churn like it's the little engine that could going up a steep incline as Win10 tries to find things on your computer, the web, etc.
9) Curse the dead bloated seal that is Windows 10
10) Give up with frustration and open 'This PC' and manually search for something