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The Cortana integration here is a two-way affair: voice and text searches you make via the Windows 10 taskbar will launch a Bing search on Edge meanwhile, Cortana will collect information as you browse in order to help you find what you’re looking for in future.Ĭortana will proactively pop up on certain websites to give you information it thinks might be useful, or help you out with certain tasks. Those without access to a stylus can still scrawl notes using a touchpad or touchscreen, or add numbered text notes with a keyboard.Īnd then there’s Cortana integration, which ties in Windows 10’s new voice-driven personal digital assistant. It allows users to highlight and annotate web pages with freehand scribbles, save them as notes, and share them among friends, family or colleagues. Web Notes is a completely new feature, primarily aimed at users of hybrids and tablets with stylus support. Importantly, articles on your Reading List are also synced across any other devices you have running Windows 10 and Edge. However, rather than saving articles in a separate app, they now appear alongside your bookmarks, browsing history and downloads in the Hub menu. Now, it’s an integral part of the Edge browser.Īs with the Windows 8 app, Edge’s Reading List function works offline. You were able to save web pages to read offline later to the Reading List app, via the immersive browser’s Share link. In Windows 8 it was a separate “Modern” app (and, confusingly, it remains a part of Windows 10 too). The Reading List isn’t an entirely new feature, but the way it’s implemented is. It’s a godsend for reading long-form articles, or pieces posted on websites cluttered with menus, adverts and extraneous link boxes. This is a feature that’s been present in Firefox and Safari for some time (and missing from IE). Reading view strips out page furniture and presents an attractive, distraction-free layout that lets you concentrate on the text. Microsoft claims there’s a total of 49 new features in the new browser most of these are minor additions, but there are five big changes you should know about. Edge vs Internet Explorer: Featuresĭespite the stripped-down UI, Microsoft’s new browser has an impressive list of new capabilities compared with IE. It scales up more gracefully on high-DPI screens, too. Switch from laptop to phone to tablet, and you’ll see the same toolbars, menus and features. And because Edge is a Universal app, it looks the same whatever device you’re using.
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