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Elliot Kirk 

I think that the things that made Edge unique should be put back as a matter of urgency. I woild say this is the order

1. Fluent UI. The UI is basically chrome at the moment. The tabs are ugly and the start menu as a web page, as with chrome is clunky and hard to navigate. Having to do a find in page to find settings is horrible. Chrome tabs are ugly and contrary to the rest of the Windows 10 ui. 

2. Pen interraction. Surface devices make a big deal about the pen and they are arguably one of the biggest appeals as MS devices. Annotation using the pen is a big draw for Edge. 

3. Pin to start menu and pin to taskbar. These are features of windows 10. Without them and other similar features what we are seeing is an Edge that doesn't really fit into windows 10 as part of the eco system. 

4. History. Look at the brilliant flyout that you get in old Edge. The chrome history menu is terrible in comparison. Same with downloads and favourites. 

5. Tab previews and set aside. Again features unique to Edge that have gone.

I wonder if any of these things are going to ever be put back. TBH the current preview looks a bit, for want of a better word, lazy. Anyone with development experience could knock together the Egde preview given a copy of the chromium source. I say you get the people responsible for the decisions on the original egde design and ui to have input into the preview. 

There is very, very little to recomment it over Chrome at the moment. In particular you will have a lag between updates chromium and them being released into the new edge. If a lot doesn't change then I can see that you will actually lose share to Chrome, rather than get more. In particular when you look at other chromium based browsers, such as Brave that seem to offer a few more features, such as inbuild security and blocking. 

I've recently swapped to Outlook and Edge on all my devices, including Android but wihtout a lot of changes I can see that decision being reversed when new Edge goes live. 

I think a lot of this is fairly common to those posting here and some kind of developmen schedule would go a long way to easing our fears. It doesn't have to be in depth or detailed. Something like a checklist saying yes or no to fluent ui, yes or no to pen note support, etc. 

A final note.... It does seem to perform better than Chrome. But performance isn't everything. People wouldn't like driving a ferrari if the seats were made of stone and metal spikes....