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• Edge Workspaces for work and play

  Posted on February 5, 2024 at 02:45 CST by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.06 • 2024-02-05

  By Mary Branscombe

  Given how often we all share links to webpages, it’s past time for some tools to manage that better. Workspaces is Microsoft’s latest attempt to share and organize Web links with a group of friends or colleagues.

  Tab groups in the Edge browser are great for organizing yourself, especially now that you can sync between your different desktop devices. But they don’t help with organizing Web links you need to send to someone else, or the ones other people send to you.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.06.0, 2024-02-05).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Browsers Edge, Microsoft Edge, Newsletters, sharing, Tabs, Web Browsers, Workspaces

• How to use the Microsoft Edge sidebar

  Posted on October 23, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Lance Whitney • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.43 • 2023-10-23

  INTERNET

  

  By Lance Whitney

  The sidebar in Microsoft Edge offers you a handy way to access frequently used tools, apps, websites, and other items.

  When it comes to browsers, I’m a dedicated Firefox user. But I have to admit I’ve been using Microsoft Edge more often. One Edge feature I like is its sidebar, through which you can easily access Microsoft 365, Outlook, Bing Search, Image Creator, and other tools and apps.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.43.0, 2023-10-23).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Internet browsers, Features, Microsoft Edge, Newsletters, Productivity

• All in on AI

  Posted on May 15, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.20 • 2023-05-15

  MICROSOFT NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  On May 4, Microsoft announced the “next wave of AI innovation.”

  Well, we’ll see about that.

  There was no parade, nor any hoopla associated with this announcement. The entirety of the presentation was in a single blog post, which might have gone unnoticed had I not received an email from a Microsoft spokesperson telling me about it. That was unusual.

  But that’s not the news.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.20.0, 2023-05-15).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Microsoft News AI, Bing, Bing AI, Copilot, Microsoft Edge, Newsletters

• Microsoft Edge Privacy Whitepaper

  Posted on April 19, 2020 at 09:23 CDT by joep517 • Comment in the Forums

  Microsoft has published a very detailed whitepaper on Microsoft Edge data collection. It is very long and detailed. It explains what data is collected, why it is collected, and how to turn off the collection. No doubt this is a response to the article that surfaced a couple of weeks ago concerning tracking in browsers. You may read the article at [url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whitepaper]Microsoft Edge Privacy Whitepaper[/url].

  Windows 10 Chromium Edge, Edge, Microsoft Edge

• Remembering passwords with Edge

  Posted on September 28, 2015 at 09:10 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Just got a good question from reader Mike_L

  You recommend Roboform for the password keeper.  However, with the elimination of add-ins in EDGE, Roboform will not work with EDGE.  The following is what Roboform support sent to me:

  No steps have been made on Microsoft’s side. It is up to them to decide whether or not they want Edge to allow extensions. All our attempts to integrate Roboform with Edge are nullified by their decision not to allow ANY extensions with Edge. Sorry. We will follow up immediately once they change this policy.

  They appear to place the blame entirely on MS which it probably is.  Knowing MS, they probably won’t be in any hurry to accommodate Roboform and it does not sound like Roboform is too eager to look for a new way to interface.

  You’re all right. Edge doesn’t support any add-ins at the moment — including LastPass, which is why I don’t use Edge much. Without add-ins, and with all of its feature shortcomings, it’s definitely not ready for prime time.

  We’ve been promised that Edge will get many of those features, and it’ll support add-ins using the Chrome programmability features. But I have no idea when we’ll see those improvements. Until we do, Edge is still half baked.

  See Where Windows 10 stands right now.

  As you know, I use Win10 all day, every day. I’m using Google Chrome right now when going to my usual places, and switch to Firefox when I don’t particularly want to leave a crumb trail for Google. (I looked for a particular kind of sofa last week, using Chrome, and now all my pages have ads for this particular kind of sofa. Ooops.)

  Chrome and Firefox both work great in Win10, in my experience. Maybe some day Edge will be up to the challenge. We’ll see.

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