Microsoft developers are working on adding the new Microsoft Search service to the Windows 10 search bar for Office 365 corporate customers. The process has already begun and Microsoft says that users will be able to use the service by the end of the year.
According to Redmond's support website, Microsoft Search can help users search across Microsoft 365 and get results from multiple Office 365, including SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Search will also suggest some results based on customers' activity and will make finding shared files much easier. “Microsoft Search is enabled by default and thus you can search for information from all applications” Microsoft explains.
After Microsoft Search is moved to the Windows 10, users will be able to find content stored by their organization in Microsoft 365.
Some of the advantages of the new support are:
• Users receive results that are related to the application they are searching from. For example, when they perform a search in Microsoft Outlook, they will find email messages and not SharePoint pages. When they search in SharePoint, users will find sites, pages, and files.
• Microsoft Search is personal. Search uses information from the Microsoft Graph to display results that are related to each user. Each user may see different results, even if they search for the same words.
• Users don't have to remember where the information is. For example, a user is working in Microsoft Word and wants to reuse information from a presentation that a colleague shared from OneDrive. They don't have to go to OneDrive and search for that presentation, they can simply search from within Word.
• When on Bing, users get results from their organization along with public web results.
Microsoft also tried to develop the Microsoft Search service as a Chrome. However, the extension would have to use the Bing search engine to return the required results. For this reason, Microsoft temporarily abandoned development of the Chrome extension.
