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Microsoft Edge has also built-in discount and promo codes for online shopping.
Microsoft is adding a new coupon feature to its Edge browser today. Coupons and coupon codes can surface within Edge as a reminder when you're shopping online, and they can be immediately added to your shopping cart when you're about to check out. The coupons functionality also provides price reviews, because if you're shopping online, Edge will surface various stores that may sell merchandise at lower prices.
Microsoft launched price comparisons in Edge just weeks ago as part of its Collections functionality, but this latest coupon experience goes even further. It's part of Microsoft's big drive to place Edge as a browser for online shopping, but similarities and discounts just work for US browser users right now.
If you're not interested in online shopping, Edge is now having a few more productivity enhancements that are especially beneficial for students. Microsoft introduces a widely desired feature to the option to annotate and apply text annotations to the PDFs. And according to Microsoft, one of the most demanded functions is to return to Edge: inking. You will now be able to digitally ink and annotate screenshots as part of the new screenshot tool.
Microsoft also adds the ability to record a whole webpage in a snapshot later this month. Many of the current screenshot software actually screenshot what you see without the option to grab the entire website or scroll as you capture the screen. Microsoft's latest Edge screenshot tool can automatically scroll down the web page to enable you to catch everything in a single picture.
Word and Outlook will also treat copied URLs from Edge a lot more elegantly soon. Microsoft can shorten long links to nice URLs when you copy links from the Edge address bar and paste them to Word or Outlook. This is helpful if you don't want to use bit.ly or some other shortening program, and you can even go back to the longer URL in the Term or Outlook background menus.
