- Windows 11 search results will soon include applications of the Microsoft store
- You will receive a button to enter directly and install any relevant application
- Some people are already unhappy with this and demand the ability to deactivate this behavior (when it happens)
Microsoft has worked on the search features of Windows 11 a little lately, bringing clever ideas, but an incoming change that has just overcome on the radar has not been so well received.
In fact, the announcement that Microsoft Store applications will have appeared in Windows 11 search results, manufactured by Giorgio Sardo (VP of App Store at Microsoft) already causes a little misfortune. See the post of Sardo on X below, as indicated by Neowin, and note the immediate reaction.
Coming soon: Microsoft Store Integration with Windows Search! Find and install applications from your start -up menu or task bar! Find out soon – Tell us what you think! 💻 # Windows #Microsoftstore pic.twitter.com/ma9ib8evrrMay 6, 2025
How it works is that when you launch a search in Windows 11, using the search area in the taskbar or in the Start menu, the Microsoft Store is fully integrated, and all the store applications that adapt to your request will be highlighted in these results.
As you can see in the example of screenshot provided on X (develop the post above to see it), the grammar app is presented when entering a “Gram” search with a large button to obtain the software. Click on it and you will be directly in a download of the application.
(Note that there is a link to “ open in the Microsoft ” nestled store, which will obviously send you to the application page in the store, so I suppose that click on the “GET” button must start downloading the software directly).
Analysis: Can you turn it off?
It was not a popular idea. As mentioned, the reaction on X was mainly around the idea that it is “another feature to deactivate”, but of course, it is not clear if it will be something you can say to Windows 11 to stop doing. Hope is that this is the case, and I would add my voice to those who argue that this must be an option here, if Microsoft brings this.
This key of research seems to have entered for the operating system, however, since Microsoft’s executive mentions that it “arrives soon” in uncertain terms. This feature was also covered in the recent thorough look that we have obtained on new upcoming features for Windows 11, including this overhaul of the Big Start menu (and a stack of things for Copilot + PCS, including an AI agent to modify the operating system settings).
In the blog post relaying all these features which are about to enter tests for Windows 11, Microsoft mentioned something that I completely missed when I initially wrote about it (The Bolding is mine so that [testers] Later this month, we introduce the possibility of finding Windows parameters and quickly find and install applications from the Microsoft store. “”
This wrinkle apart, another introduction that Microsoft makes to improve research on Windows 11 is actually quite exciting, because it inaugurates the functionality of natural language. The wrestling with this is that this conversational style search uses AI, so it is for Copilot + PCS only. Not so long ago, a file search application was also rumored, and this could be a step in potential for wider search capacities of Windows 11.
In the recent history of Windows 11, there was also a lot of work done to relaunch the performance of the Microsoft Store, but it has taken fewer projectors than these research changes as you can imagine.
