Microsoft developers are currently working on adding the Microsoft Search offering to the Windows 10 search boxes of Office 365 enterprise customers.
The new feature is in development and Microsoft says that it should arrive on users' desktops sometime during this year's fourth quarter.
"We're bringing Microsoft Search to the Windows 10 search box," the update's Microsoft 365 roadmap entry reads.
"Microsoft Search is an enterprise search experience that increases productivity and saves time by delivering more relevant search results for your organization."
Microsoft 365 search in Windows 10
According to Redmond's support website, Microsoft Search can help users search across Microsoft 365 and get results from multiple Office 365 data sources including SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Microsoft is also designed to make result suggestions based on the customers' Office 365 activity and to allow pinpointing shared files a lot easier.
"Microsoft Search is on by default and any administration you do applies to Microsoft Search in all the apps," Microsoft explains.
After Microsoft Search will be brought to the Windows 10 search box, users will be able to find content stored by their organization within Microsoft 365 or indexed via connectors.
Microsoft highlights the following among the potential benefits of having Microsoft Search support brought to the Windows 10 search box:
• Whichever app users are working in; Microsoft Search is personal. Microsoft Search uses insights from the Microsoft Graph to show results that are relevant to each user. Each user might see different results, even if they search for the same words. They only see results that they already have access to, Microsoft Search doesn’t change permissions.
• Users don’t need to remember where the information is located. For example, a user is working in Microsoft Word and wants to reuse information from a presentation that a colleague shared from their OneDrive. There’s no need to switch to OneDrive and search for that presentation, they can simply search from Word.
• When in Bing, users get results from within their organization in addition to the public web results.
The Microsoft Search extension for Chrome fiasco
In late January, Microsoft previously tried to forcibly deploy the 'Microsoft Search in Bing quick access' Google Chrome extension for some Office 365 ProPlus users.
This would have forced the browser to use Bing as the default search engine, helping the Office 365 customers to "access relevant workplace information directly from the browser address bar."
At the time, the company said that it was planning to roll out the extension starting in mid-February to enterprise customers running with Office 365 ProPlus, Version 2002, through the targeted monthly channel.
However, following users' outrage, Microsoft decided to backpedal on its decision a few weeks later, in February, pausing the rollout and saying that "administrators will be able to opt in to deploy the browser extension."
"In the near term, Office 365 ProPlus will only deploy the browser extension to AD-joined devices, even within organizations that have opted in," Microsoft said. "In the future, we will add specific settings to govern the deployment of the extension to unmanaged devices."
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