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Enable sharing a webpage via Windows' default mail app (e.g. Outlook desktop app)
Edge currently only supports sharing a webpage via the Windows Mail app. The Share-button in Edge does not allow sharing a webpage via Windows' default mail client app. (For example: Microsoft O...
The latest build of Edge (Canary) now supports what I requested, see screenshot below.
Thanks Microsoft.
Hi,
this is something the Outlook team need to do, not Edge team.
Edge browser simply uses the Share functionality that Windows provided to it and Windows lists apps in the Share whose developers enabled this for those apps.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2017/12/04/extend-desktop-application-windows-10-features-using-new-visual-studio-application-packaging-project/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/app-to-app/share-data
this is something the Outlook team need to do, not Edge team.
Edge browser simply uses the Share functionality that Windows provided to it and Windows lists apps in the Share whose developers enabled this for those apps.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2017/12/04/extend-desktop-application-windows-10-features-using-new-visual-studio-application-packaging-project/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/app-to-app/share-data
Microsoft has responsibility for both Outlook and Edge so given that this is July 2021 somebody should have sorted it by now.