Bing

Microsoft is removing the waitlist for its new AI-powered Bing today, and the company also detailed several new features to enhance the search experience with AI. The software giant also plans to turn its Bing chatbot into a platform and let developers create third-party plugins for it, echoing the recent launch of the first plugins…

Microsoft released Edge version 111 on Windows, macOS, and Linux last week, and this update brought a noticeable UI change: There’s now a big Bing button at the right side of the Edge toolbar, which integrates the new Edge Copilot experience that leverages Microsoft’s Bing chatbot powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT.  Clicking the Bing icon in…

Microsoft is releasing today a major update for Windows 11 version 22H2. This update introduces a new search box in the taskbar that integrates the new AI-powered Bing that Microsoft started testing earlier this month.  Despite Windows 11 now receiving major updates once a year (the latest one being the version 22H2 released last fall),…

Image Creator, the new AI-based art generator tool that Microsoft announced at Ignite 2022, is now available in Microsoft Bing. The new Image Creator app is only rolling out in preview to Bing in select markets, with an integration with Microsoft Edge to follow later this month. Powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 technology, Image Creator…

This Week in IT, Microsoft source code is leaked by hacking group Lapsus$, HP warns of a serious remote code execution flaw in many of its printers, Nvidia announces a new ARM ‘superchip’ for servers, Jira gets a new app for Microsoft Teams, and there’s more… About This Week in IT This week in IT…

Last week, the infamous hacker group Lapsus$ claimed that it had breached several Azure DevOps source code repositories. Microsoft is currently investigating claims of this hack, but the source code of Bing, Bing Maps, Cortana, and other internal projects may have been leaked online (via VentureBeat). Over the weekend, the hacker group Lapsus$ posted a…

You can now connect Office 365 sources like SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams, and Yammer to Microsoft Search and have Bing reveal results from those sources in its searches. It’s a useful trick, as long as you use Bing as your search engine. And there’s the small matter that Microsoft has left Exchange out of the list of connected sources, which seems to reduce the usefulness of searches a tad.

Microsoft and Reddit have teamed up to make searching the site a little bit better and also adding a new tool for marketers.

Yahoo, bound by the terms of a multi-year search agreement with Microsoft, would like to run back to Google. This week, it took a big step in that direction.