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imayush
Feb 09, 2020Copper Contributor
cortana support for new Microsoft Edge
If anybody can remember, in the older version of Microsoft edge there was a Cortana support which helped in finding the meaning of the keywords and related info about them in side panel. this was b...
cjc2112
Apr 01, 2020Bronze Contributor
HotCakeX Cortana is also losing most of its skills and is being dummed down to an assistant (☹). That may include not being compatible with edge or it may even be a slow death where they stop developing it and wait for it to die.
HotCakeX
Apr 01, 2020MVP
They are shaping the new Cortana to be most useful for Microsoft 365 subscribers (Family/business/enterprise)
btw they announced that Office 365 subscriptions are merging and there is only gonna be 1 subscription with different plans and it's Microsoft 365.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Microsoft-365
if Edge team want to just create simple features like looking up words and show them in the same page instead of a new tab then it won't need AI but other things like controlling browser with voice, like how Firefox voices is, that probably requires Cortana integration
btw they announced that Office 365 subscriptions are merging and there is only gonna be 1 subscription with different plans and it's Microsoft 365.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Microsoft-365
if Edge team want to just create simple features like looking up words and show them in the same page instead of a new tab then it won't need AI but other things like controlling browser with voice, like how Firefox voices is, that probably requires Cortana integration