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josh_bodner
Silver Contributor
Aug 29, 2019

*UPDATED* Dev channel update to 78.0.262.0 is live

UPDATE 2:  Instead of releasing build 256 since it had problems last week, we decided to release a newer build this week.  All the notes for build 256 are still below, but additions from the newer bu...
Jeffrey Allen's avatar
Jeffrey Allen
Silver Contributor
Aug 30, 2019

josh_bodner, with the Share button will we be able to change the mail program for example as we use Outlook and not the built-in mail app as we are an O365 tenant.  Also what about Microsoft Teams as an app to share with?

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Richard Blanco Jr.
Brass Contributor
Sep 05, 2019

Jeffrey Allen 

josh_bodner 

 

Also looking for this function to share to Outlook email client a URL link. This has been requested for a LONG time in Edge even before the shift to Chromium back-end. How the browser cant just send this link to your default email program is beyond me. Work PC's will not use "Mail". They will use Outlook and this has never been available! Insane. I have to copy /paste every time I want to send a web page link to someone via Outlook email manually.

 

Would love for the share link to create a new email in Outlook, place the title of the Web Page in the Subject line of the email and obviously place the URL in the body of the message. This kind of action must be something used in the workplace constantly. i cant imagine having to go out and get some 3rd party plugin for such a simple task.

 

some history here going back to Jan 2018!: 
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/15266189/

  • Jeffrey Allen's avatar
    Jeffrey Allen
    Silver Contributor
    Sep 05, 2019

    Richard Blanco Jr. , I agree with opening in Outlook as the businesses aren't going to use the built-in mail app.  Pleas, please add this josh_bodner 

    • Drew1903's avatar
      Drew1903
      Silver Contributor
      Sep 06, 2019
      Certainly, it should talk to Outlook, obviously! Should not have to tell anybody to add such a thing. Should be obvious! Facepalm, rolling eyes

      Cheers,
      Drew

      Sent from Windows Phone
      • josh_bodner's avatar
        josh_bodner
        Silver Contributor
        Sep 10, 2019

        Drew1903 

         

        Hey Drew,

         

        You're right, you shouldn't have to tell us to work on adding desktop Outlook because it's already being worked on!  Any program that wants to appear in the Share popup needs to do work themselves to support it, which means it's actually desktop Outlook's job to make sure they appear there, not ours.  Luckily, we've been in conversation with them and they've added support in the latest versions of Office (see my screenshot below).  They just might not have rolled out those changes to the public version yet.  

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