Cortana Is Leaving Windows 10’s Search Bar, But Bing Stays

Author: Josh Hendrickson / Source: How-To Geek

In the upcoming release of Windows 10, codenamed 19H1, Cortana and the search bar are breaking up and moving into separate houses. Unfortunately, the search bar won custody of Bing. Windows 10 19H1 is expected for release around April 2019.

The separation was announced by Microsoft in a blog post unveiling Windows Insider build 18317.

All jesting aside, the deep integration of Search and Cortana is one of the biggest complaints about Windows 10.

We’ve taken time to show you how to hide and disable Cortana, and how to force Cortana to search Google instead of Bing. But if you liked and wanted the search bar, then you had to put up with Cortana. Thankfully Microsoft is finally taking care of that issue. But unfortunately, you’ll still have to put up with cloud searching.

As shown above, in 19H1, you will have a search box and a Cortana icon. You can turn off either or both. To…

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