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Hi Rohit Yadav , this is Himanshu Singh

About me - I am a 1st year electrical & electronics engineering student at National Institute of technology, Jamshedpur, India. I see my self as a skill development enthusiast with interest in web development and graphics designing. I am an eager MS Edge insider and I connect soulfully with Microsoft's well organized softwares. 

How I came across this - Well, I was casually browsing Edge's insider website to check on the browser's upcoming features, where I saw your video in the spotlight section. It was really nice to see you as such an enthusiastic student ambassador. The level of your loyalty towards Microsoft really fascinated me and it was something that I connected to. Also the fact that you were from India kept me eager. Since then I tried to keep in touch with your handles and kept checking on your posts. And as a result of which I found this community thread on your twitter.

New update on Edge-  This time Edge got some huge changes. The vertical tabs feature, updates in the pdf viewer, syncing open tabs etc. The feature which most fascinated me was the improvements to pdf annotator. I am student and in these online semesters the online & easy to use tools for studying on your laptop and doing your assignment has developed great importance. So the improvements in the pdf viewer are the quick menu that pops up immediately after selecting the text, improvements on pen's smoothness, text search feature and the sweet 2 page view feature.

Since long I have been a huge fan of Microsoft's pen in these annotators. Its so so soo smooth that it just feels like gliding my pen on the digital pad when I write on pdfs. The ink is colorful and soft yet bold enough to make an impact. And with this the quick menu pop up, it just increases your productivity and ink change time. The text search feature is another cherry on the top.

Now talking about the other features. The vertical tabs view comes out to be the most in the spotlight. When I tried this feature on the Edge Dev I doubted if they will continue with this. But they eventually did and I think the thought process behind this addon is to enable swift browsing and to increase the user's productivity. The feature is doing this job really good. It does decrease the time to switch tabs and it places all your tabs in a better glance.

What I am looking upto- The feature I am looking out the most is the write on web feature which allowed us to make notes directly on the webpages. I felt to be a revolutionary feature when it first came out in 2016. But due to some reason MS discontinued it and I don't know why. Now we have the web capture feature as its substitute but it just not gives the feels. Write on web was too easy to use, dynamic and accessible. I wrote a feedback to MS asking them to please bring it back. Hope they would look into it 🙂

Closing words - With so much already said I would just lastly say that,

Despite all that, Microsoft, I am in love with your simplicity. A wise man said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" This applies to you so well ! The simple and organized UI hiding underneath an array of dynamic features to empower its users.

Thanks Rohit Yadav for being such an active insider. I guess it was your love for Microsoft and emphatic energy that attracted me to the community. Lets make this world a better place together !

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