The Win10 Experience - Microsoft Edge
Win10 replaces Internet Explorer (IE) with the Microsoft
Edge, but you wouldn’t notice it at first.
The Edge icon is a slightly stylized version of a lower case “e” – looks
a lot like the old IE icon, with a more hip (or maybe LESS hip) haircut.
Two things strike you at first blush of Edge: First, the
menu bar you are accustomed to across the top of Internet Explorer is …
different. It has tabs, like before, but
there is leftmost “Start” command, Next,, the entry screen is tiled (like a
tablet screen) with LOT of entries form
the Net. On my 17” laptop, at the
default 100% size, there are about 80 screens of web links across 11 topics
plus “My Topics.” A small text note informs me this “My News Feed – powered by MSN.”
Among the tools on the top bar is the “pencil in a square” indicating
you can make Web Notes – write on the page, add a text box, highlight with a
pen tool, and save/send the page, plus a direct clipping tool. However, this does not apply to the Edge home
screen, which is customizable but not fully accessible to the user – no Web
Note capability there. There is, through that Home button, the ability to
navigate right back to your first tab, the "My News Feed.” This is important if
you have not set the browser to open all new screens in a new tab, and want to
go back without scrolling through all those interesting pages you browsed, and
you never thought to activate the Setting to show a HOME button.
If you miss the sarcasm there, it’s that Microsoft has given
you a new way to do something there were already three or four ways to do, while
keeping all of the old ways, backward compatibility for the Browser Idiot.
The Web Notes capability looks pretty interesting, but I’ll
have to investigate before I proclaim it a windfall of Win10.
Tomorrow, I will take a stroll with Cortana, or WinSiri.
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