What’s it like to make use of Bing Chat inside Windows 11? It’s remarkably like utilizing it on the internet, although simpler to seek out.

Microsoft pushed a brand new characteristic replace to Windows 11 on Tuesday. The unnamed replace (which can be known as the February 2023 Update or Windows 11 22H2 Moment 2) consists of a decent number of features, together with display screen recording, energy suggestions, and extra. But the flagship enhancement is the addition of Bing Chat, which is now built-in inside Windows 11 for the primary time.

With this replace, Microsoft has enhanced the Search bar on the Windows 11 taskbar. Instead of simply performing as a practical button, you may truly start typing in it—although the Search field will open, simply as earlier than.

Look fastidiously, although, as a result of whenever you do open the search field, you’ll see two new icons: the Bing icon to the higher proper, in addition to an elevated variety of tabs on the prime of the search field. The tabs already included a listing of choices that included Apps, Documents, Web, and so forth. Now they’ll embrace a brand new entrant as nicely: Chat.

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The conduct of the Search field will change relying on what you do with it: If you merely click on on the search field, the varied topic tabs, together with Chat, received’t seem. Instead, you’ll see the Bing icon to the higher proper, which presents to open the Search operate inside Microsoft Edge. If you started the search by typing within the field, the listing of tabs will open, together with the Chat possibility.

In both case, clicking on the Bing icon or deciding on Chat from the tabs will take you to the identical location, the Chat interface of Bing, or Bing Chat. (It’s doable that this default conduct could also be tweaked or up to date; as an example, opening the Search field inside Edge through the Bing icon might finally take you to the Bing house web page. For now, although, you’ll find yourself in the identical place.)

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If you need to carry out a search utilizing a conventional listing of outcomes, choose Web from the listing of tabs. It seems that, for now, Chat is the default possibility.

The Search field can be implementing the usage of Microsoft Edge, even in the event you’ve instructed Windows to make use of a special browser, reminiscent of Google Chrome, by default. After switching the default browser from Edge to Chrome, we tried utilizing the Search field once more. As anticipated, the Bing icon (with the “Open in Edge” tooltip that’s generated whenever you hover your mouse over the icon) opened Bing Chat in Edge. The Chat possibility did as nicely, nevertheless, with no indication that it was overriding consumer preferences. Microsoft executives have mentioned beforehand that Bing Chat will finally be supported on different browsers, however for now the one possibility appears to be Edge.

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We haven’t tried utilizing Bing Chat’s built-in Search on an area account. There doesn’t appear to be any notifications about limits Microsoft is implementing on Bing Chat, although the corporate has restricted Bing’s creativity and positioned limits on the number of interactions per session and per day. Those limits look like about six queries per session earlier than Bing Chat asks you to alter matters, and about 100 classes per day. (Those numbers mirror Microsoft’s resolution at press time and can possible change.)

Microsoft can be including “temperature” choices to Bing Chat to can help you select between creativity and precision, however we haven’t seen these choices both inside Windows’ settings or the online interface. Microsoft has mentioned that selecting a more creative version of Bing Chat will initially decrease its accuracy.

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Remember, too, which you can all the time save Bing Chat or ChatGPT and run them as a Windows app, too.

What all of it boils right down to, although, is that Bing Chat isn’t actually “integrated” into Windows, because it makes use of the Microsoft cloud and the Edge internet browser to generate outcomes. It’s basically a shortcut—however one which’s nonetheless simpler to seek out and use than earlier than.