Microsoft tends to want to impose its Bing search engine in its other products and features. The publisher has taken a new step by testing a new option based on Bing… in the Windows 11 screenshot tool.
A new version (11.2404.37.0) of the Windows 11 screenshot tool will soon be rolling out to users enrolled in the beta program in the Canary and Dev channels. This brings its share of new features, but one of them risks making people cringe.
If you thought that Microsoft was being intrusive by wanting to push certain of its services at all costs, you will not be reassured. Never losing an opportunity to highlight its Bing search engine, the American giant has this time found a trick to integrate it into its famous Snipping Tool.
Bing is everywhere, even in the screenshot tool
As spotted by PhantomOcean3 on X and relayed by TechRadarMicrosoft will test an option Visual search with Bing. Working on the same principle as Google Lens on Android, it allows you to perform an image search from the current screenshot. We don’t yet know if the search results will be displayed in an interface element of the screenshot tool or using this feature will launch the Edge browser. Microsoft is taking advantage of the advent of AI in recent months to sprinkle a little Bing throughout its ecosystem, and this is likely to continue.
Among the less controversial new features coming to Snipping Tool, we can also mention the possibility of integrating emojis into screenshots. These emojis can be moved and resized as desired on the image. The software will also detect QR codes present on a screenshot, allowing direct access to the website to which it refers without the need to scan it with a third-party device.
Finally, we note the return of the rule, which had disappeared, and the arrival of an option to modify the opacity of a shape fill, to obtain a transparency effect for example. Increasingly complete in terms of editing, the native Windows 11 screenshot tool could well become a credible alternative to certain third-party programs in the future.
Source: TechRadar