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Inking on Web Pages - Discussion
Elliot Kirk A few months ago, after I installed the new version of Edge and discovered the pen was gone, I uninstalled it and got the pen back. This morning, the new version was back again without any action by me. Now I can't uninstall it. It's bad enough that we have to teach in these very difficult circumstances. Why do you take away the tools that make our lives and jobs just a little bit easier? I have already posted about the way I used the pen but is there a way to get the old version of Edge back...again?
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Unfortunately there is still a veil of near corporate silence from Microsoft on this. There were many ways MS could have supported its users up until the (perhaps) re-emergence of the full pen tool-set original Edge provided.
I fear this will be another instance of MS not staying the course and disappointing current users and future users alike who are/would be attracted by and invest in a continuously improving feature set such as this one.
Without that sort of commitment it makes betting on Microsoft more and more difficult. Right now, the most impressive emerging pen technology out there is on Apple's iPads (and likely computers at some soon point) and Samsung's devices.
Perhaps this is all indicative of what happens when marketers outrank engineers and customers? Either way there was no need to eliminate old Edge and leave us hanging with a half solution -- especially without warning (happened to me too).
My current work around is to use Print Friendly & PDF extension (usually now in Firefox) to create a pdf (usually the whole page not just the visible screen) and then open it with the MS pdf tools. Kludgy but somewhat workable -- but still no highlighting. This is not, I should add, likely acceptable for security sensitive documents.