From PC World: On Friday, Microsoft released a pair of new builds to test new Windows 11 features, offering improved cloud search to Copilot+ PC owners, alongside a nifty new sharing and Start menu interface for Windows users in general.
Sometimes, Windows builds are a bit like a railyard, with tracks and switches and roundabouts. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4950 (KB5052078) is headed to the Beta Channel, for those who skipped an earlier release at the end of January. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3291 (KB5052080) is a separate, optional release headed to both the Beta and Dev Channels. Microsoft will make this second release a recommended one in the second half of the year, so the two builds will combine.
The Windows 11 26120.3291 build is the simpler addition, so let’s start there. In January, Microsoft began testing its semantic search option: allowing users to search by description, rather than filename. You can already sort of do this within the Photos app within Windows, where searching “beach” can return scenes from a summer vacation.
In much the same way, you can now search the cloud using similar descriptive terms. The new feature allows you to use Windows search to search the cloud, but also to perform that search using the search box on the Windows taskbar. Note that this feature is still confined to Qualcomm-powered Snapdragon PCs, not those powered by AMD or Intel.
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