The company has also highlighted the changes it plans to introduce in the Canary channel next month:

• Edge will finally get a built-in feature to block auto-playing video audio.
• Scrolling improvements.
• Microsoft is also adding a favorites button to the toolbar and it will be similar to the one we have in classic Edge. The feature has already been enabled for some users in the Canary channel.

Microsoft is working on the following features for October release:

• The new Microsoft Edge will also allow you to sign PDF documents with a stroke of your stylus.
• The profile picture in the bar will be updated more often. Microsoft is also improving support for multiple profiles in Edge.
• You will be able to customize the background image on the New Tab Pae (NTP) with your own wallpapers or photos.
• The Edge extensions store will get search integration.

Apart from the aforementioned improvements, the Redmond firm is also working on a series of changes to reduce CPU and memory usages.

Microsoft Edge is currently available through Beta channel, which receives updates every six weeks, Dev channel, which is updated once a week, and Canary which is updated regularly.

Edge Stable leaked

In related news, Microsoft has also launched the first beta update of Edge browser. Unlike the Canary version of the browser, the beta version will receive major updates every six months.

Edge Beta is not complete in all aspects and it doesn’t come with all the features which are available in the Canary version.

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Microsoft Edge Dev Build 77.0.235.4 provides users with the option to turn off the translator for any webpage they want. The company has also added the ability to ‘never translate’ pages in a particular language.

Microsoft is adding a new button to maximize the feedback screenshot editor window. The Redmond firm has also added the ability to resize the feedback diagnostic data window and group policies support for the Smart Screen is also available.

The company has fixed a bug crashing the browser when users typed in the address bar. Another crashing issue experienced during the first run has been addressed.

The following bugs have been fixed to reduce crashes:

• Fixes an issue where the browser crashes on startup.
• Fixes an issue where Settings page would crash the browser.
• Sites which used single sign-on caused the browser to hang has been fixed.

Microsoft is also fixing broken icons of webpages pinned to the taskbar.

There are also other important fixes mentioned below:

• An issue where videos on certain sites like Netflix sometimes become hidden has been fixed.
• An issue where print preview sometimes doesn’t render all pages has been fixed.
• Fixes issues with the search engines that have been deleted reappear the next time the browser is opened.
• Microsoft also fixed an issue where invalid data was being shown in certain form autofill popups.
• For Mac users, an issue where light or dark theme isn’t properly applied to system pages like Favorites has been fixed.
• An issue where sign-in popups sometimes didn’t show the correct window icon and title.

All these changes are also available for Canary users. You can update Microsoft Edge to the latest version from the About section of the browser.

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Windows 10’s Settings app comes with an Optional Features page which allows users to manage, install, and uninstall optional features such as Windows Media Player. The company is working on adding new tools to further enhance the Optional Features setting.

Windows 10 20H1 could add support for sorting and searching on the Optional Features page, so you can easily search for a feature or sort the list by its name or download size.

For example, if you want to uninstall Windows Media Player, you can use the search box and find the item quickly instead of manually scrolling through the long list.

Microsoft is also planning to remove regional packs from the list of optional features.

The new and improved version is currently in internal testing and is expected to be pushed out to insiders in the upcoming builds.

Other leaked Windows 10 20H1 improvements

Microsoft is also working on several other improvements for Windows 10 20H1, including inline text suggestion feature when typing with the hardware keyboard.

Windows 10 leak recently revealed that Microsoft is working on a new version of Start Menu and Control Center, though these changes may not ship with Windows 10 20H1.

Microsoft is expected to release Windows 10 20H1 to all devices in the spring of 2020 and preview builds are already available for users enrolled in the Fast Ring.

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The Redmond firm is working on bringing synchronization support to the Microsoft Edge making it possible to automatically sync data from one app to another running on other platforms.

In the near future, if you have Edge on both Windows 10 and Android with same Microsoft account, you will be able to sync all the information like favourites, etc. Settings can also be synchronized helping in a seamless transition between platforms.

Currently, Chromium-based Microsoft Edge allows users to sync favourites across platforms. In Edge Dev, only two sync options – Favourites and Settings can be enabled, but Edge Canary is also allowing users to enable sync support for new options such as addresses, phone numbers, and passwords.

The new sync option is yet to become available for all Edge Insiders and the feature may not work even if it is enabled in your browser. Users are reporting that this could be part of A/B testing as some are still not seeing the new sync options in the browser.

In a blog post, Microsoft recently stated that it will be rolling out new features to a small randomly selected subset of Canary & Dev channel before enabling it for all testers.

You can find the sync feature by navigating to Microsoft Edge > Settings > Profiles > Sync settings.

Other improvements

Microsoft Edge was recently updated with an experimental flag for Windows Spellchecker feature. Windows Spellchecker replaces the Hunspell spell checker, which is the same engine that currently powers Google Chrome, LibreOffice and other apps.

Microsoft is working on several other improvements for Chromium open-source project, including deeper integration with Windows 10 Settings, touchpad scrolling improvements and more.

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Microsoft Edge Dev Build 77.0.197.1 also adds a new option that would show icon for individual favourites on the favourites bar. More Languages have now been added in Microsoft Edge along with the ability to choose which categories of diagnostic data are shared with the feedback.

Microsoft fixed an issue where navigating to a website by typing its address in address bar resulted in the browser to crash. Microsoft also fixed an issue where opening DevTools in an InPrivate window resulted in the browser to crash.

An issue where selecting an item from the dropdown menu resulted in the browser to crash has also been fixed. The Redmond Giant also fixed an issue where signing out of the browser sometimes crashes it. An issue has also been fixed were signing into the browser resulted in it in a broken state.

Other Fixes:

• An issue where some favorites on the favorites bar spontaneously lost their text has now been fixed.
• Microsoft fixed an issue on Mac where videos on certain websites don’t cause the video controls to appear on the touch bar.
• An issue where searching from the address bar doesn’t work with certain search providers has now been fixed.
• Fixed an issue where certain context menu items were incorrectly appearing in some DevTools context menus.
• An issue where the + button to open new tabs sometimes wasn’t the correct color has now been fixed.
• Microsoft has improved drag and drop responsiveness on the Favorites page.
• Some layout issues on the Extensions page when using certain localized builds have now been fixed in the latest build.

You can go to Settings > About Microsoft Edge and check for updates to get the new build.

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If rumours are believed to be true, Surface Pro “Excalibur” with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor is being developed at Redmond. Excalibur is the internal codename for a custom SoC that will power the Surface Pro and it is reportedly designed from the ground up for Always Connected PCs.

The new Qualcomm processor would be specifically optimized for Windows 10 and it is expected to deliver performance equivalent to an Intel Core i5 processor. While the performance would be nearly same, ARM-powered Surface Pro will apparently offer a longer battery life.

Snapdragon-powered Surface device could give a much-needed boost to Always Connected PCs initiative. Microsoft’s investment in Snapdragon devices may encourage other manufacturers to adopt it for their own models.

Surface Pro with Snapdragon processor could be announced later this year and other hardware specs are unknown at the moment.

Surface’s design overhaul

The long-rumoured Surface Pro codenamed Carmel with overhauled design has been pushed back and it could be announced sometime next year.

At the October 2019 event, Microsoft will also announce new upgrades for other Surface models, including Surface Book.

On the other hand, Microsoft’s long-rumoured Surface foldable device may ship with Intel 10nm Lakefield chip instead of the ARM processor.

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Microsoft Launcher 5.5 introduces a number of new features, including a new hidden dock feature. This feature allows users to hide the dock but access apps and widgets. Microsoft has also improved support for notification badges and you will see notification badges for calling and messages apps.

“Get notification badges for calling and messaging apps without setting Microsoft Launcher as your default assistant. Set Launcher as your default assistant for better accuracy,” Microsoft explains.

The new update also comes with some UX enhancements to shortcuts when the home screen is locked. Another new improvement comes in the form of faster Tasks card syncing for Microsoft and work/school accounts.

Microsoft has been regularly working on adding new features to its Launcher app for Android device users who would like to experience deep integration with Microsoft services.

The latest update is part of such effort by the Redmond Giant which has made significant progress in making the app run as smoothly as possible for Android users.

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You can enable the feature from Chrome’s flags menu by searching for ‘Tab Groups’. Once enabled, you will be able to add tabs to a group by select ‘Add to new group option’ which appears when you right-click the tab. Once a group is created, you can add another tab to a new or the same group.

This feature is expected to be rolled out to the public with Chrome 77, ETA for which hasn’t yet been announced by Google.

Pin Tabs with Drag and Drop feature

Google is also testing another new feature to helps you to Pin Tabs with Drag and Drop. This feature is currently under testing in the Canary build of Google Chrome. To pin a tab in Chrome, you need to right click > Pin tab. Pinning tab is already available in the Chrome browser, but Google is working on modifying the feature.

Google will now allow users to pin and unpin a tab by dragging and dropping tabs from one side to the other. The company is working on this feature due to the increase in the number of pinned tabs.

But for the drag and drop feature to work, you would first need to pin a tab by right click > Pin Tab function and then you will easily be able to drag and drop tabs over the pinned tab.

To unpin the tab, you need to drag it from the left side of the screen and place it where normal tabs are located. As noted, this feature is being tested in the Canary version of Google Chrome and can be enabled with  the following flag:

• Drag to Modify Tab Pinnedness

Once enabled, restart the browser to access the feature.

There is currently no ETA announced as to when all these changes will be made available to the public version of the Chrome browser.

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The operating system moved from 44.10% to 45.73% in May. This is a welcome sign for the Redmond Giant since Windows 10 is inching closer to claiming 50% of the operating system market.

Currently, more than 800 million devices are running Windows 10 which is short of the one billion devices target which the Redmond Giant initially expected to achieve by the end of 2019.

There are still many users who are running Microsoft’s earlier version Windows 7 on their desktops, the support for which is to be retired in January 2020.

As we still months away from January 2020, the businesses and users are not rapidly migrating to Windows 10. Windows 7 is still running on 35.44% of the PCs worldwide as of May 2019.

With the release of Windows 10 May 2019 update, we expect more users to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system by the end of this year.

Google Chrome continues to dominate the browser market

According to the latest data provided by NetMarketshare for the month of May 2019, Google Chrome continues to dominate the browser market.

Google Chrome now holds 67.90% of the market which is an increase of 2%, followed by Mozilla’s Firefox which is holding 9.46% of the market. Internet Explorer continues to hold on to its 3rd position with 7.70% market share.

The fourth place goes to Microsoft Edge which is holding 5.36% of the browser market share which is far behind Google’s Chrome.

It’s not known how many users are on Chromium-based Edge and whether its data has been included in Chrome share.

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Microsoft Edge Dev version is now 76.0.172.0 and it doesn’t come with any major features, but it does include some important fixes. For example, the update fixes crashing issue of Edge.

Another issue has been addressed where the browser crashed when the user opened settings in InPrivate Mode.

Latest Edge Dev build also makes sense to the behaviour of pinned websites on the new tab page. For example, if a website is already being loaded in the Edge in a particular tab and users try to click on the pinned icon pointing to the same page, then Edge puts focus on the tab that contains the shortcut’s website instead of opening a new tab every time.

Another subtle change that Microsoft has brought is that the history menu can now display the full URL of a website when hovering the mouse over its link.

Edge Canary gains grammar tools

The grammar tools can be used in the reading view mode, allowing users to read articles with a special focus on texts. As some users noticed, you would need to manually enable the grammar tools from the flags menu.

To access Grammar tools in reading mode, go to flags menu and enable #edge-reading-view-grammar-tools.

To check if the Grammar tools are enabled, you need to open a page where the reading view is available and click the small book icon in the address bar.

The grammar tools menu comes with options like syllables, highlighting for parts of speech like nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The purple colour for nouns, red for verbs and more.

The built-in grammar tool would make it easier to read books, novels, stage plays and websites in Reading view. It could improve reading comprehension through increasing fluency learners or readers of other languages.

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