Microsoft Edge Becomes More than Just a Browser in Windows 10 Redstone 2

[Batu69]

Redmond introduces EPUB file format support in Edge

   EPUB file support in Microsoft Edge

 

They say Internet Explorer was the best browser to download Google Chrome, but since IE is no more and Microsoft is betting big on Edge, it was only a matter of time until the Internet came up with a new joke.

Microsoft Edge is now often described as the best PDF reader that’s available for Windows 10 users, and it turns out that Microsoft is not at all upset with this joke because yes, Edge can open PDF documents in a pretty neat way, just like a fully-featured app specifically developed with this goal in mind.

And since Edge is not only a browser, but also a PDF document viewer, Microsoft wanted to improve it even more beyond the browser dimension and introduced a new feature that allows it to handle the EPUB file format. This means that you can open ebooks right in Microsoft Edge, without the need for any other third-party software.

Currently available for insiders exclusively

This feature was introduced with Windows 10 build 14971, which debuted only a few hours ago, but will most certainly be part of the Creators Update (also known as Redstone 2) seeing daylight in early 2017.

Microsoft says that even if Edge was specifically designed to be a browser, the EPUB file format support is one of the best on the market, so you are very unlikely to miss any critical feature. And of course, since this is work in progress, you can always submit your suggestions in the Feedback Hub.

“When you open an unprotected e-book in Microsoft Edge, you will be taken into a customizable reading experience where you can change the font and text size and choose between 3 themes: light, sepia, and dark. As you read, you can leave bookmarks. To navigate through an e-book, you can use the table of contents or seek bar at the bottom of the browser. And you can also search for words or phrases and use Cortana to define specific words,” Microsoft says.

This feature is currently available exclusively for insiders enrolled in the Fast Ring, but development advances quickly and more users should get to try it in the coming months. The debut of the Creators Update is expected to take place in March.

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[mirassol]

Does Edge also zip and unzip files ? Oh God please let it do !

[jimmyjazz]

37 minutes ago, mirassol said:

Does Edge also zip and unzip files ? Oh God please let it do !

Well file explorer does it. So you're covered there.

[IronY-Man]

Edge is edging out small 3rd party softwares and taking baby-steps.

 

With the same pace they will edge out other browsers by the time human's colonize MARS !

[steven36]

18 minutes ago, IronY-Man said:

Edge is edging out small 3rd party softwares and taking baby-steps.

 

With the same pace they will edge out other browsers by the time human's colonize MARS !

Chrome  have  1 billion users spread out over  like 5 platforms

http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/google-app-statistics/

Edge is only in one o/s Windows 10  ..Windows has 1.5 billion spread out on like 4 windows o/s most are still on windows 7 that don't have Edge so its not logical to think  they could compete with chrome  right now  .

[luisam]

3 hours ago, Batu69 said:

Microsoft wanted to improve it even more beyond the browser dimension and introduced a new feature that allows it to handle the EPUB file format

 

So what? Not great news! Firefox has an EPUB reader complement years ago

[steven36]

8 minutes ago, luisam said:

 

So what? Not great news! Firefox has an EPUB reader complement years ago

i been using Windows 10 off and on over a year  and i never used EDGE  not even for testing  , i  never use Google Chrome ether but i do test it  sometimes i use Slimjet and other  Chrome browsers  sometimes. i use Firefox mostly .

[Batu69]

6 minutes ago, luisam said:

So what? Not great news! Firefox has an EPUB reader complement years ago

 

Yeah, not great news for Firefox users, of course. But for Edge users, who know

Not all internet users use Firefox

[steven36]

The ones that don't use Firefox  use some kind of Chrome  witch have apps were  you can read  epub for many years too

https://ebookpartnership.com/help-faq/open-epub-file-pc-laptop-using-readium/

i wouldn't  give you 2 cents for any of them because i  use a stand alone  readers blocked with a firewall .

 

 

[luisam]

2 hours ago, Batu69 said:

 

Yeah, not great news for Firefox users, of course. But for Edge users, who know

Not all internet users use Firefox

Some funny facts from my somewhat limited personal experience:

Actually most Windows users up to 8.1 use Internet Explorer because they don't even know that Firefox exists or use Google Chrome but they neither know how it got in their computer nor at what moment IE was changed to Google Chrome.

Some wouldn't install any third party browser because they don't want to mess with their computer

Many Windows users don't know that there are different browsers.

Most Windows 10 users don't know that IE11 is not openly documented but comes installed or firmly believe that Edge IS a new version of IE.

Many Windows 10 users don't understand how their Windows 7 or 8.1 changed to 10 from one day to other.

Most Windows users, including those who have Firefox, Google Chrome or Edge, never even heard about EPUB

 

 

[WALLONN7]

19 minutes ago, luisam said:

( ... ) use Google Chrome but they neither know how it got in their computer nor at what moment IE was changed to Google Chrome. ( ... )

 

If it were not for Google's underworld ( AKA trojan ) policy, Chrome probably would not have 95% of its current users...
Just a note: in test done with my customers, where I made a browser look like Chrome, they used it without problem... As soon as I removed the mask, they started to ask for "Chrome"...

This is what I call the Coke's effect: no matter the content, as long as you see the packaging!!!

[IronY-Man]

3 hours ago, steven36 said:

i been using Windows 10 off and on over a year  and i never used EDGE  not even for testing  , i  never use Google Chrome ether but i do test it  sometimes i use Slimjet and other  Chrome browsers  sometimes. i use Firefox mostly .

Same here,

 

& about competiting with Chrome... Edge lacks majority of addons-content as why people still dont looks to other browsers other than Chrome or Fox (or based on those that support their addon-ecosystem) ....because of that and lot of telemetery and privacy-invading tactics that Edge sports along with cortana and other sh*t....people are still avoiding edge.

22 minutes ago, WALLONN7 said:

 

If it were not for Google's underworld ( AKA trojan ) policy, Chrome probably would not have 95% of its current users...
Just a note: in test done with my customers, where I made a browser look like Chrome, they used it without problem... As soon as I removed the mask, they started to ask for "Chrome"...

This is what I call the Coke's effect: no matter the content, as long as you see the packaging!!!

That is one of the main reasons that most of the browsers that are new in the market are sporting 90% chrome's look.

[pc71520]

 

1 hour ago, luisam said:

-Many Windows users don't know that there are different browsers.

 

-Most Windows 10 users don't know that IE11 is not openly documented

but comes installed or firmly believe that Edge IS a new version of IE.

 

-Many Windows 10 users don't understand how their Windows 7 or 8.1 changed to

10 from one day to other.

 

-Most Windows users, including those who have Firefox, Google Chrome or Edge,

never even heard about EPUB.

You have perfectly described the situation.

I fully agree with you.

 

[luisam]

8 hours ago, WALLONN7 said:

 

If it were not for Google's underworld ( AKA trojan ) policy, Chrome probably would not have 95% of its current users...
Just a note: in test done with my customers, where I made a browser look like Chrome, they used it without problem... As soon as I removed the mask, they started to ask for "Chrome"...

This is what I call the Coke's effect: no matter the content, as long as you see the packaging!!!

 

11 hours ago, steven36 said:

 i  never use Google Chrome ether but i do test it  sometimes i use Slimjet and other  Chrome browsers  sometimes. i use Firefox mostly .

I have no problem using Google Chrome. I have it installed and use it ocasionally on Windows XP even if it can't be updated any more and on Windows 7(updated to latest version 54.0.2840.99), because it has some video decoders not included neither in IE nor Firefox. But I find rather unethical and intrusive what you call quite correctly Google's "trojan" policy,

As for Edge, I tested it just for a short time, while testing Windows 10 for about 2 days and found nothing particular in it to like it. Didn't miss it at all after I uninstalled Windows 10. And, I guess it won't be "more than a browser" for having complements available as Google Chrome and Firefox.