I did a bit of searching here and didn’t find any mention of this. In Windows 10 and 11, if you press Alt-Space Bar, a search bar appears in the middle of the screen reminiscent of Apple’s Spotlight search bar. I assume this is part of the search bar code that planted the static bar in the middle of the desktop. It’s pretty fast and seems to limit itself to content on the machine or offers to do a search thru the default browser. I like it.