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There are few worse first-world problems than buying something online, only to find that a 10 percent coupon was lost.
Now Microsoft is trying to make that a thing of the past for Edge users by automatically filling in coupon codes for you, no need to search.
Now if you visit an online retailer, you will see a blue coupon icon in the address bar. According to Microsoft, Edge will proactively display coupon codes at checkout, and from there you can copy and paste codes, or have Edge test each code and auto-fill the one that will save you the most money for your item mix.
Sticking with the shopping theme, the company introduced a price comparison tool within Edge’s Collections feature last month to help you save money. Now the company is being more proactive about these price comparisons, with a blue icon in the address bar showing if there is a better deal at another retailer. Alternatively, Edge will show you if the site you are on has the lowest price it can find to save you some time.
These features will be enabled by default, but you can disable them by pressing the ‘…’ button in price alerts or by going to Settings> Privacy, search and services.
In more shopping news:
- Edge now has an optional offers button found on the new tab page
- Bing now has a shopping center selected
- A new “Shop the Look” feature uses visual search to help you create an outfit
- Bing now has dedicated product pages on the shopping tab that allow you to view user ratings, pro reviews, specs, and price trends over time.
Of course, Edge is far from the only way to automate some savings in your browser. There is no shortage of extensions that claim to do the same and work across a set of browsers. Still, it’s nice to have built-in features.
Shopping aside, Edge’s annotation features are also improving considerably. You can now take screenshots and annotate sections of web pages, including ink support. Users of “later this month” will also be able to capture entire pages with one click to avoid the need to scroll. To start a capture, you can press Ctrl + Shift + S, or select Web Capture from the ‘…’ menu button.
Lastly, Edge is adding the ability to comment on PDF files, in addition to the previously available handwritten annotations and highlighting.
These updates are rolling out to users now. For more information on these features, plus a couple of others, you can check out Microsoft’s blog post here.
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Posted on Nov 19, 2020 – 22:01 UTC
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