

Furthermore, accessing the Snipping tool on the Windows menu, or through the ‘Win + Shift + S’ shortcut combination, will also allow users to summon screen recording, instead of just screenshots. Quick Assist, available on the Start menu, will allow users to quickly access technical support from Microsoft. Others: Quick Assist, Snip recording, Notepad tabs and more Through the Windows 365 app, Microsoft is integrating the ability for users to add and access their virtual Windows PCs - thus adding more multitasking ability to the service. These new ones include Phone Link, Xbox Game Pass, and more by third parties such as Meta’s apps (Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram) and Spotify, among others.

Microsoft now has a larger portfolio of Widgets on Windows 11. The company claimed to have over 1 million selected users across 69 countries as part of its AI Bing beta trials. Nevertheless, Panay’s post confirmed that only those users who have been selected for an early preview of Bing will have the feature, at least for now. This suggests that even in the early-stage beta preview rollout, the ChatGPT-backed AI Bing search service can have a potential market of 200 million to reach, giving it a leg up in the race for AI search supremacy against the present market rulers, Google. Microsoft has over 1.4 billion active Windows PCs, and as per a report by The Register, about 15 percent of these run on Windows 11 as of November last year - or over 200 million devices. With this update, users will be able to access the AI search tool right from their laptop home screens, and not need to use a specific web browser or other app to find the service. The biggest feature on note as part of the Windows 11 update is the addition of Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search tool, right into the Windows 11 taskbar. As part of the latest Windows 11 update, iPhone users will now get the ability to make phone calls, send and receive messages, and control other applications that are on their devices - similar to what Android users have been able to do for a while now.

Going forward, Microsoft said it expects the feature to roll out some time by the end of this year itself for all users, and via the Phone Link app, will allow Apple iPhone users to connect their devices to Windows 11 PCs.

The feature is also part of the Windows Insider Preview programme, which means that bulk users who are not on the beta version of Windows 11 will not have access to it right away. Years into users around the world asking for the feature, Phone Link for iPhone is finally (almost) here.
