Microsoft is testing a separate interface for Cortana and Windows Search 10

Microsoft has been testing some changes in its search interface for a while, a year ago the Insiders could see a panel similar to the Spotlight in macOS that worked separate from the start menu, but with the October 2018 Update the results with preview of documents and webs were implemented, the interface was not changed.



Now, some Insiders who are testing the 18298 build of Windows 10 have witnessed another experiment in which the Search has completely separated from Cortana, in fact, with a different icon for each one in the taskbar.

Cortana and the search in Windows 10 have been practically synonymous since Microsoft began to integrate its personal assistant into the system, if you want to look for something there it is always listening even if you never want to talk to it.

In this new interface Cortana has its own separate view that they have called "Conversation Canvas" and will be used only to manage Cortana's notes, reminders and connected devices that support Cortana.
Separated Search Ui Capture by Michael Reinders

For its part, the dedicated search interface will be only for files, local documents and installed applications. And it is important to note that Microsoft is working on improving the search in the system finally allowing absolutely all of our folders and discs to be indexed.
The Windows 10 search will soon also index all the files on our disk

Separating these interfaces could have the objective of separating completely how the user interacts with each function that mostly does not need to be mixed, and Cortana has evolved beyond being just the Windows personal assistant to start being used in other services and apps of Microsoft At the moment we do not know if these changes will be implemented in the next stable version of Windows 10.

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