Microsoft is testing an above-lock-screen search box for Windows 10

The start menu search box in Windows 10 contributes significantly to Bing’s search volume, delivering nearly 50% as much search volume as the Bing website.

It seems Microsoft is getting ready to return to that well, with a new hidden feature uncovered in the latest build of Windows 10 H1 Build 18932.

According to regular Windows hacker Albacore, that build has a feature which enables a Bing search box on the Home screen.

The feature can be enabled using a tool such as Mach2, though its use case appears rather unclear.

Do our readers see any point in doing a typed Bing search from the lock screen? Let us know below.

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