It’s an thrilling time in expertise, not only for our trade however for the world. The Windows PC has by no means been extra related in our every day lives, and that is more and more the case as we strategy the following wave of computing led by the mass adoption of AI. Today’s main replace to Windows 11, that I’m pumped to introduce, meets this new age of AI and reinvents and improves the way in which folks get issues carried out on their PCs.
Launched simply over a 12 months in the past, Windows 11 gave the PC a contemporary refresh and all new experiences that allow every of us to attach, take part, and be seen and heard. Since the launch, Windows 11 customers proceed to be extra engaged than Windows 10 customers and our US shopper buyer satisfaction is greater than any model of Windows ever.
In the final three weeks, we additionally launched the brand new AI-powered Bing into preview for greater than 1 million folks in 169 international locations, and expanded the brand new Bing to the Bing and Edge cellular apps in addition to launched it into Skype. It is a brand new period in Search, Chat and Creation and with the brand new Bing and Edge you now have your personal copilot for the net.
Today, we take the following main step ahead including to the unimaginable breadth and ease of use of the Windows PC by implementing a typable Windows search field and the wonderful functionality of the brand new AI-powered Bing instantly into the taskbar. Putting all of your search wants for Windows in a single simple to seek out location.
The search field is among the most generally used options on Windows, with over half a billion customers each month, and now with the typable Windows search field and the brand new AI-powered Bing entrance and middle to this expertise you may be empowered to seek out the solutions you’re searching for, sooner than ever earlier than.
We’ve been impressed by folks’s tales of how they’re utilizing the brand new Bing. For instance, a first-generation grad pupil from a creating nation shared how the brand new Bing provides him entry to info and assets that have been beforehand inaccessible and troublesome to seek out. Stories like these energize and encourage us. With the brand new Bing within the Windows taskbar, you may be extra empowered to harness the world’s info.
For me personally, this expertise is having unimaginable influence on how my children, and I talk with my dad, their grandfather, in Greek. It’s necessary for us to remain linked to the place we’re from, together with talking the language, and with the brand new Bing chat expertise we will study and observe writing and talking in Greek with my dad. It’s inspiring and altering the way in which we talk and join in methods we by no means imagined.
Soon lots of of tens of millions of Windows 11 customers can get entry to this unimaginable new expertise to go looking, chat, reply questions and generate content material from proper on their Windows taskbar.
If you’re within the Bing preview, all you’ll must do is set up at the moment’s Windows 11 replace to entry the brand new search field. To be a part of the brand new Bing preview join on the waitlist.
We can’t wait to see how the brand new Bing in Windows evokes you.
Additional new Windows 11 options within the replace, designed to make your on a regular basis simpler
We’re additionally excited to introduce a bunch of latest options from throughout the staff that can make your on a regular basis simpler on Windows 11. For instance, it is possible for you to to hyperlink your iPhone® cellular system on to your Windows 11 PC utilizing a brand new preview of Phone Link for iOS. Additionally, you’ll discover improved contact experiences, full display widgets, and fast entry to the Windows 365 app. Windows 11 additionally contains new AI options in Start, in addition to ongoing updates to make the working system extra accessible and sustainable and delivering on our continued dedication to high quality and ease of use throughout the system and functions. We look ahead to listening to your suggestions on these new updates.
Introducing Phone Link for iOS in preview
Today, we share the following step on our journey to take away boundaries for these of you who’ve iPhones with the introduction of Phone Link for iOS. With Phone Link for iOS you’ll by no means have to fret about lacking that necessary name or textual content while you’re concentrating in your Windows 11 PC.
This builds on our continued efforts to convey you nearer to what’s extra necessary, like simpler entry to the images in your iPhone with iCloud integration within the Photos app. Launching first as a preview to Windows Insiders, you’ll be able to study extra about getting began with the preview of Phone Link for iOS by visiting the Windows Insider Blog.
Android® telephone customers get a fair richer expertise
Phone Link capabilities have been accessible to Android customers for fairly a while and we’re glad to share that we’re making the connection even stronger between an Android system and a Windows PC. With lots of of hundreds of opinions within the Microsoft Store, we’re energized to listen to that individuals are having fun with having on the spot entry to every part they love on their telephone on their Windows PC.
For these of you with a Samsung telephone, we’ve made it simpler to activate your telephone’s private hotspot with a single click on from throughout the Wi-Fi community listing in your PC. And with the Recent Websites function, Samsung customers can even now simply switch their browser classes from their smartphone to their Windows PC, permitting them to proceed searching effortlessly—an effective way to remain in your movement.
Broadcast your greatest self, proper when you could with superior AI
Whether you’re taking a convention name in a busy foyer, giving the pitch of your life to an investor midway world wide, or assembly your latest member of the family, all of us can relate to desirous to look and sound our greatest so we will join in essentially the most significant means attainable.
Last 12 months we launched Windows Studio Effects1. Enabled by superior AI, this assortment of audio and video results allows you to customise your audio and video for any scenario you might be in.
Effects like eye contact, background blur, computerized framing and voice focus, accessible to make use of along with your built-in digicam and mic, improve your video calling expertise. With this replace, we’re making it even simpler to seek out and alter your Windows Studio Effects settings instantly from the taskbar in fast settings. Now you’ll be able to immediately alter background blur, eye contact and computerized framing, and apply them to your favourite communications functions, with seamless integration into Microsoft Teams. Our companions are persevering with to ship thrilling new gadgets that gentle up these options, just like the beforehand introduced Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 2 360 and the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s. Check out different new system bulletins that our companions together with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and our gaming companions made at CES.
Connect in additional methods with a easy click on
When we launched Windows 11, we included integration with Microsoft Teams by the Chat function accessible out of your desktop on the taskbar, making it simpler so that you can make the connections you search. With this replace, the Chat signature expertise has been totally revamped to make it simpler to preview your video and soar straight right into a name or share a name hyperlink by any app with these you care about most. You can even get sooner, simpler entry to your entire conversations, with the power to navigate between conversations in Chat—multi function window.
Providing assist is simpler than ever with the redesigned Quick Assist app
Are you on the receiving finish of the technical help name—out of your brother whose pc “just stopped working,” your neighbor who can’t login to an necessary app, or your father or mother who simply can’t discover that factor they saved yesterday? For these of you who present technical help to household and pals, we all know how difficult it may be to assist.
You can open Quick Assist proper from the Start menu and get linked extra shortly than earlier than, and even make the most of the brand new functionality to change between display sharing and full management throughout a session to offer or get assist the way in which you need. And you’ll love this, there’s a brand new laser pointer you should use to spotlight an icon, menu, or anything on display to be able to assist information folks by the training course of.
More of the information and knowledge you care about is only a swipe away
Sometimes you simply need to shortly see the most recent headlines, get the rating of the massive recreation, test your shares, the climate, and even your schedule—however you don’t need to must juggle a number of gadgets. With Widgets, you don’t must; information and knowledge you need is inside attain and with out disruption.
We are excited to introduce the growth of Widgets to incorporate Phone Link, Xbox Game Pass, and companions like Meta and Spotify, so it has by no means been simpler to remain updated on the issues that matter. By merely clicking the climate icon in your taskbar or swiping from the left, Widgets delivers necessary info at a look. With the launch of latest Widgets, we’re creating a greater expertise for you, and new methods for builders to achieve Windows prospects. Get extra info on developer instruments to get began.
Enhancing your contact expertise
Sometimes we want a break from our desks and need to use our PCs in a extra informal setting like sitting again and stress-free on the sofa to look at a film. In instances like these, when your keyboard and mouse get left behind, you need to maximize your display expertise and make it extra aware of your contact.
Windows prospects love the straightforward means they will shortly and intuitively navigate their Windows touchscreen gadgets with out a mouse and keyboard. Recent enhancements like contact controls for Snap to get your home windows completely organized with only a contact, and new contact gestures that assist you to simply open and shut Start, Widgets and fast settings, have made getting issues carried out on contact gadgets easy. Now, you’ll be able to maximize display actual property and adaptability when utilizing your system with out a keyboard with the collapsed taskbar. When you detach your display, the taskbar immediately slides away. Need to open one other app or test your Widgets pane? Simply swipe as much as develop it for straightforward navigation.
Screen recording in Snipping Tool
An image may paint a thousand phrases, however a video can inform a narrative. For all of the academics, creators, college students, entrepreneurs…you get the image video. Easily seize what you might be doing with a brand new built-in display recorder in Snipping Tool.
We’re persevering with to develop the capabilities of this fan-favorite app, so now you’ll be able to simply seize, save and share your Snipping Tool creations – all proper within the app. To use the display recorder performance, you’ll be able to search and launch Snipping Tool by Search on the taskbar and choose document. Your display captures are actually mechanically saved to a default folder, so that you received’t have to fret about dropping them. Want to open Snipping Tool simply? Here’s a keyboard shortcut: Windows key + Shift key + S.
Tabs make navigating Notepad simpler than ever
For builders on the market who love a fast solution to seize strains of code for straightforward reuse, Windows 11’s Notepad app is right here for you.
We are enhancing Notepad, bringing tabs to the app expertise. Notepad tabs will present a fast and simple solution to preserve your knowledge organized and allow you to change between notes so you’ll be able to create ready-to-compile code with out formatting points. Simply open the Notepad app and click on the + icon to create a brand new tab.
New accessibility options embody Braille show help and enhanced voice entry in key apps
We consider the world is a greater place when everybody can take part, so we’re persevering with to make Windows 11 essentially the most accessible model of Windows but. We’re happy to ship enhancements to Narrator that reach help for extra Braille shows, which incorporates three new Designed for Surface shows from HumanWare. Now switching between Narrator and different display readers whereas utilizing your Braille show is a seamless expertise. This essential performance means Narrator can effortlessly work together with accessible equipment, guaranteeing people who find themselves blind are in a position to make use of Windows with ease.
We’re additionally bringing voice entry performance out of preview and delivering a extra versatile and enhanced answer when utilizing voice on Windows 11. You can use voice entry along with your favourite Microsoft apps throughout Windows 11, from engaged on a Word doc to managing recordsdata in File Explorer. Whether you’re connecting, collaborating or creating, you’ll be able to simply use your Windows system to do extra, with or with out a keyboard and mouse. Here’s a full listing of voice instructions.
New vitality suggestions make it simpler so that you can management your environmental influence
Windows needs to empower folks to extra simply take motion to cut back their carbon footprint on our journey to put money into sustainable expertise. With new toggles and suggestions instantly in your system settings, you’ll be able to extra simply perceive your selections and take motion to regulate your settings so you may make the only option in your private PC utilization and for the setting.
Harness the ability of AI to seek out the recordsdata you want beneficial in your Start menu
For these of you who use Windows in a enterprise setting, we’re serving to you get to what you want extra shortly and simply—whether or not that be a file you want instantly, or your cloud PC so you’ll be able to work the way in which you need.
Available on Windows 11 Pro gadgets and better which are Azure Active Directory (AAD) joined, we’re personalizing your expertise by delivering AI-powered beneficial content material inside your Start menu. Simply click on to open the Start menu and discover associated content material that will help you put together for upcoming conferences, shortly entry recordsdata you’re collaborating on, and extra.
You’ll additionally discover much more to like in File Explorer—from our quickest ever file search to beneficial native and cloud recordsdata, proper the place you want them.
Access your Cloud PC with the brand new Windows 365 app
For fast entry to your Cloud PC, we’ve got made the Windows 365 app usually accessible within the Microsoft Store. With the Windows 365 app, you’ll be able to go out of your desktop straight to your Cloud PC, which gives you with a customized expertise tailor-made to your settings, profile and work fashion. It additionally reduces friction for IT directors who can allow staff with a single sign-on expertise. You can obtain it now at https://aka.ms/Windows365app.
How to make the most of all these new options
Windows is delighted to ship on our promise to convey thrilling new experiences to Windows 11 extra ceaselessly in our persevering with dedication to innovate in ways in which matter to you. With this replace, we’re bringing the ability of the brand new AI-powered Bing and extra new options to make staying linked—whether or not or not it’s to the folks or info you care about—simpler, for everybody. These new experiences will begin to develop into accessible at the moment, through Windows Update and new apps accessible through Microsoft Store updates2. Users with eligible gadgets operating Windows 11, model 22H2 who’re excited by experiencing these new options now, can select to take action by opening Windows Update settings (Settings > Windows Update) and deciding on Check for updates3. We anticipate full availability of the brand new options delivered through Windows Update within the March 2023 month-to-month safety replace launch (discover extra info for industrial prospects).
We’re pumped about this replace and consider there’s by no means been a greater time to expertise the magic of the Windows PC than proper now; study extra right here.
1 Hardware dependent.
2Click ‘Get updates’ in Microsoft Store > Library – and search your favourite titles or discover our new curated assortment of cellular apps and video games.
3Device reboot required to allow new options. New function availability could range by market.
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