It’s just a search bar located in the start menu and on the task bar, that combines local search with web results. For pro users it is pretty terrible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many regular users like it. You still have a normal local file search from within the file explorer.
That’s not true, all my files are stored on onedrive nowadays, which is super fast and responsive. Oh wait… it’s actually slow and laggy and randomly deletes stuff from your pc and you’re not even allowed to give your files perfectly normal names like .aux files in a LaTeX project.
Searching the filesystem. There’s no reason Windows Search needs to access the internet. Fucking Bing.
Convenient indexed search was the only real improvement Windows made since XP and now they’ve ruined it. Windows XP is once again superior.
It does what now? Why would it do that?
It’s just a search bar located in the start menu and on the task bar, that combines local search with web results. For pro users it is pretty terrible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many regular users like it. You still have a normal local file search from within the file explorer.
It’s been doing it since Windows 8.
It helps use Microsoft’s Windows monopoly to promote Bing.
I imagine that at some point the EU antitrust people might get grouchy about that.
That’s not true, all my files are stored on onedrive nowadays, which is super fast and responsive. Oh wait… it’s actually slow and laggy and randomly deletes stuff from your pc and you’re not even allowed to give your files perfectly normal names like .aux files in a LaTeX project.
At least we have Everything for local search.
True story!