Microsoft's new Windows 11 update adds a button promoting its Bing A.I. chatbot

Microsoft said Tuesday that it volition commencement promoting its new Bing chatbot, which draws connected startup OpenAI's artificial quality capabilities, successful an update to Windows 11.

Bing is not hugely popular, but Windows drives 9% of Microsoft's revenue. It's the world's starring operating system, with about 82% share arsenic of 2021. The summation of a nexus to the refreshed Bing adjacent to the acquainted Start fastener is simply a large measurement guardant for exertion that's astatine times proven to beryllium inaccurate oregon offensive. The motion mightiness assistance Microsoft situation Google, which earlier this period permitted "trusted testers" to effort its Bard chatbot that could rival Bing's caller quality to reply queries with web information.

"It's a caller time successful search," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during the lawsuit conscionable 3 weeks agone astatine which Microsoft revealed the caller Bing. "It's a caller paradigm successful search. Rapid innovation is going to come."

After entering a query into the hunt information of the taskbar astatine the bottommost of the screen, a idiosyncratic volition spot hunt results and a caller chat button. Clicking that fastener volition unfastened an Edge browser model and punctual the Bing chatbot to respond to the person's query, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC successful an email.

The caller Bing enactment is lone becoming a regular fixture of Windows 11, which Microsoft released successful 2021. Support for Windows 10 ends successful 2025, and galore radical person not upgraded yet. In January astir 69% of Windows PCs were inactive moving Windows 10, and 18% were connected Windows 11, according to estimates from StatCounter.

Not everyone volition beryllium capable to spot the chat fastener successful Windows 11 astatine first. Microsoft has fixed over 1 million radical entree to the caller Bing, a tiny fig compared with the estimated 100 million radical who utilized OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot successful January.

In time, the taskbar alteration mightiness thrust higher usage of the updated Bing. Over 500 cardinal radical usage the Windows hunt container each month, Microsoft's merchandise chief, Panos Panay, wrote successful a blog post.

Bing has been disposable from the Windows taskbar for years, and Microsoft generates gross erstwhile ads look successful hunt results aft radical benignant successful definite queries. Heavier usage of the updated Bing could bring fiscal upside. Microsoft would summation $2 cardinal successful further gross for each percent constituent of gross it picks up successful the search-advertising market, Amy Hood, its concern chief, said connected Feb. 7.

Jefferies surveyed 900 consumers astir the caller Bing, and of the 127 who had tried it, 86% said they were impressed oregon precise impressed, but conscionable 17% said they would marque Bing their caller default hunt engine, according to a Monday enactment to clients.

People with Windows 11 PCs connected version 22H2 tin petition the caller mentation with the much intelligent Bing and the different additions by opening the Windows Update conception of the Settings app and clicking the "Check for updates" button, Panay wrote successful the blog post.

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