product discovery

About this tag
The product discovery tag on WindowsForum.com covers how AI and conversational agents are reshaping the way consumers find and evaluate products online. Discussions include Shopify's Winter '26 Edition, which makes merchants agent-ready for AI-driven shopping, and Ralph Lauren's Ask Ralph stylist built on Azure OpenAI. Comparisons of visual search tools like Microsoft Copilot Vision and Google Lens highlight their role in identifying products from images. Microsoft's AI chat advertising also introduces immersive showroom formats for product discovery. These threads focus on retail, fashion, and search technologies, emphasizing AI's growing influence on how products are surfaced and recommended in digital commerce.
  1. Shopify Winter 26 Edition: Agentic Storefronts and AI Commerce Playbook

    Shopify’s Winter ’26 Edition turns a headline product launch into an explicitly strategic play: make millions of merchants agent-ready for AI-driven shopping, stitch catalogs and checkout into conversational agents, and use payments and product-data scale to defend a central position in the next...
  2. Ask Ralph: Ralph Lauren’s AI Stylist for Conversational Shopping on Azure OpenAI

    Ralph Lauren’s new conversational stylist, Ask Ralph, is rolling out to U.S. app users today — a generative-AI feature built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit suggestions delivered through natural-language conversation and visual laydowns...
  3. Microsoft Copilot Vision vs. Google Lens: Which Visual Search Tool Reigns Supreme?

    When it comes to streamlining everyday browsing with AI vision, two heavyweights have emerged: Microsoft Copilot Vision and Google Lens. Both promise smarter, faster identification of the world around us—be it a product, plant, passage in a book, or even a snippet from an official document. But...
  4. Microsoft Revolutionizes AI Chat Advertising with Immersive Showroom and Dynamic Filters

    Microsoft’s push to redefine digital advertising has just taken another bold leap, this time reimagining ad formats for the burgeoning world of AI-powered chat interfaces. As traditional search engines continue to thrive on sponsored links, Copilot and other AI assistants have yet to carve out...