Microsoft is continuing to make Microsoft Edge a better browser with a number of improvements detailed below:
Collections with Pinterest integration
Collections helps you organize, save, and share your online life by allowing you to create groups of content from around the web. Links, images, text, and notes can be saved together across multiple sites, pages, and browser sessions to help you stay organized and inspired.
Now, Collections in Microsoft Edge is collaborating with Pinterest to help you discover relevant content for your research or project. People use Collections to capture their favorite design ideas, recipes, home improvement links, and even to research their next big purchase across multiple sites. This new integration with Pinterest will help you find ideas to spark inspiration, save time, and be more productive by suggesting content related to what you have already collected. When you enable the feature, you will see Pinterest suggestions at the bottom of your collection. Clicking on a suggestion will open a board of similar, trending Pins so you can quickly find and add ideas relevant to you.
This collaboration also allows you to export your collection to Pinterest. Any saved webpages or images will then show up in a new board in your Pinterest account.
Collections will also be rolling out the ability to send to OneNote, in addition to the options to send to Excel and Word which are available today. Collections integration with Pinterest, and Send to OneNote, will appear in Insider channels within the next month. Join our Edge insider program to be one of the first people to try it.
Sidebar search provides a faster, more contextual way to look things up
Today you have the option to look up words or phrases by searching in a new tab. This can make you lose your train of thought instead of helping you get more out of what you’re reading. Sidebar search aims to improve this experience by giving you the option to see results in a pane on the side of the page. Simply highlight a word or phrase, right click, and select “search in sidebar” from the context menu. And if you’re at work and signed in with your Azure Active Directory account, you’ll even see company results! Reading a corporate strategy paper with unlinked references? Use sidebar search to help find the answer. When you’re done, you can close out of the pane or keep searching in it to look up additional information.
Expect to see this show up in Insider preview channels in the coming weeks. Become an Edge Insider to be one of the first to try it.
New features for information workers and IT Pros
Microsoft Edge is the browser for business, and today we’re announcing new features and updates to make the lives of IT managers and information workers a little bit easier. Want to try these out in your organization? Download offline installers here.
New syncing and customization options for IT professionals
If you use multiple devices while working from home, you know how important sync is. Installed extensions now sync in Microsoft Edge and a new policy even allows IT professionals to precisely manage which types of data sync for their users. The flexibility to sync individual data types means IT professionals can fit syncing to their workplace needs. For some workplaces, syncing passwords might not be allowed—now IT can manage this.
Coming soon, sync will also extend to customers whose environments are still on-premises. The transition to the cloud takes time, and your company should be able to get the most out of Microsoft Edge during that transition.
Data security gets a boost with Windows Information Protection
As many people work from home, data protection is top of mind, especially for IT professionals. Microsoft Edge now supports Windows Information Protection for Windows 10 customers which clearly separates personal and corporate data, adds extra protection for line-of-business apps, and provides audit reporting for compliance. This has been a top ask by many customers, and we’re excited to bring it to the new Microsoft Edge.
Easily move between work and personal profiles
For information workers, we’ve made improvements to help keep them in their flow throughout the workday—this is especially true for those working at home, where work and personal boundaries can easily blend. Microsoft Edge now allows users to set a default profile for any link they open, creating a consistent experience even if they’re switching between profiles throughout the day.
Microsoft Edge helps you manage your profiles even more with a feature called Automatic Profile Switching. Previously, if you’ve been using your personal account and then try to access a work link, you’d be forced to sign-in again because your personal account doesn’t have your work credentials. With the new Automatic Profile Switching feature, Microsoft Edge will detect that the link you’re trying to open needs work credentials, and then switch you to your work profile to open it. Profile switching has never been smoother.
Microsoft Search in Bing puts your work results all in one place
Bing is bringing the life-changing capability of search to the workplace, and we have an exciting update as part of this year’s Build. A comprehensive Work page will now be part of Bing’s search results pages for all Microsoft 365 customers. When signed-in to Bing with your work credentials, this page will appear right next to other familiar pages such as Images, Shopping, and News. This new results page gives you the option to view work-specific results such as files, people, internal websites, and more. If your organization uses Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, just sign into Bing with your work credentials and try it today. Learn more on our new website!
