Microsoft has revealed that the new, chat-based Bing, which debuted on desktops a few weeks ago, is now now accessible on mobile devices. The new Bing experience may be accessed in the same ways as on mobile devices: via the Bing app and the upgraded Edge browser. The new Bing is built on top of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a natural language model, but Microsoft has incorporated its own search expertise to make it even more effective. The mobile version offers the same functionality as the desktop version, but with one major advantage: voice access. With the rise of voice search on mobile, the new Bing has added support for it, bringing the experience closer to that of Cortana when it was still (relatively) useful.
Out of the blue, Microsoft is also updating Skype with the new Bing experience. Microsoft has having a hard time moving on from its legacy messaging service and is even adding this state-of-the-art feature to it. This is likely because to the 36 million daily active users the business claims to have. Bing for Skype functions similarly to existing bots on the service. If you’re having a group chat and someone asks a query that can be answered by Bing, everyone in the conversation will see the results. This is helpful whether you’re attempting to resolve a disagreement or organizing a vacation for a large group of pals. Even though Microsoft has been heavily promoting their service Microsoft Teams over the last several years, it is strange that this feature is not accessible for its users.
Microsoft’s display of the new Bing left a favorable impression, but in the weeks afterwards, things have become bumpy. Microsoft has restricted the amount of daily chats with the Bing chatbot so that it doesn’t respond too aggressively to prodding from users. Currently, users are restricted to a maximum of six messages per session and sixty messages per day; however, Microsoft has plans to raise these limits in the near future as it discovers methods to curb the proliferation of excessively lengthy conversations.
