Bing Preview Release Notes: Bing Chat in Microsoft Edge Sidebar


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We're very excited by this week’s announcement of the Microsoft 365 Copilot and the power it will bring to unleash your creativity and productivity at work.

Some of you may have noticed you’ve received accelerated access into the new Bing preview as part of onboarding tests we’re running.

Here's a summary of what's changed in the product since our March 9 update:


Adding Bing Chat and Compose to the Edge Sidebar: Users on Edge v111.0.1661.41 and newer will now see the new Bing icon in the sidebar which includes Chat and Compose experiences designed for Bing chat. These experiences will appear if you already have access to the new Bing preview—but if not, you can join the waitlist from the same location. Previously, new Bing experiences in the sidebar were only available in the Edge Dev browser version.

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Testing faster responses: We are testing an optimization on “Balanced” mode that significantly improves performance—resulting in shorter but much faster responses. Responses in the Precise & Creative tones remain unchanged.

Increasing Chat Turns to 15/150: We've increased the maximum number of turns you can have in a single conversation with Bing from 10 to 15. The total number of turns per day has also increased from 120 to 150.

Sharing chat responses: We've added the ability to share Bing chat responses with others in Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email, or using a persistent link.

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Improving contextual understanding: We’ve improved the ability for Bing to absorb larger amounts of context in Creative tone conversations. This expanded context window allows for better grounding, improved summarization of longer documents and pages, and longer conversations.

Including the group in Skype chats with Bing: We announced last month that you can chat with Bing in Skype. You can now skip the line and use the Bing preview in Skype with your friends. Simply join a group chat where at least one person is approved, add Bing as a participant, and everyone can talk with it regardless of their waitlist status. To chat with Bing, simply add @Bing at the beginning of your message.

Keep your feedback coming!

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I think I'm the only one that likes this here!!!!
Hello,
After getting used to seeing the rather large blue 'B' located on the far right side of the address bar I agree with you that I rather like it now and have asked and received some useful information while utilizing the the included chatgpt functionality.
 

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Hello,
After getting used to seeing the rather large blue 'B' located on the far right side of the address bar I agree with you that I rather like it now and have asked and received some useful information while utilizing the the included chatgpt functionality.
I like the tools section, calc, unit converter, translator etc., and Outlook. Not tried the 'Drop' file sharing app though. Handy with a couple of clicks without having to open another app - all within the browser.
 

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I like the tools section, calc, unit converter, translator etc., and Outlook. Not tried the 'Drop' file sharing app though. Handy with a couple of clicks without having to open another app - all within the browser.
So far my single biggest issue with the edge browser is concerning the 'sidebar' and how it functions, on different chromium based windows browsers at least some of them already offer the ability to open & close the sidebar by simply moving your mouse pointer close to that area of the screen. I've already sent the edge developers some feedback concerning possibly adding this feature in an upcoming release. I still have mixed feeling about the rounded interface that we are now 'forced' to use as I feel like it takes up some screen area that I'd rather have available, there used to be some experimental flags that could be utilized for modifying that area to make it appear what I consider 'normal' again but now those flags no longer work.
 

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So far my single biggest issue with the edge browser is concerning the 'sidebar' and how it functions, on different chromium based windows browsers at least some of them already offer the ability to open & close the sidebar by simply moving your mouse pointer close to that area of the screen. I've already sent the edge developers some feedback concerning possibly adding this feature in an upcoming release. I still have mixed feeling about the rounded interface that we are now 'forced' to use as I feel like it takes up some screen area that I'd rather have available, there used to be some experimental flags that could be utilized for modifying that area to make it appear what I consider 'normal' again but now those flags no longer work.
The setting you need to change is here,

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