Sync new Edge favorites with IE

Thilo Langbein 

I believe their enterprise-minded department at Microsoft would want to correct it. I believe such a department might still exist. 🙂 

A team at Microsoft are the ones who decided to use a "Favorites" folder under c:\documents and settings\user\Favorites in Win XP, which then controls any Favorites for IE. Many enterprises still use IE every day, and this Edge IE mode feature will allow those enterprises to change the default browser to Edge and use IE mode for all their sites that require. 

Given that, it just makes sense to have the Edge-ium browser sync with IE favorites since those are already managed by corporate policy. 

The policy to manage Favorites in Chrome / Edge Beta is a nightmare with json... I'm working on a Powershell tool to create an interface that will allow admins to update and manage the favorites policy, but the Group Policy snap-in requires a one-line version of the JSON file. It is in their best interest to make the favorites management from an enterprise view as elegant (like it is with IE favorites) as possible.

However, I also understand that Chromium is an entirely different browser and to rewrite the bookmarks portion of it might be a big undertaking. Still - it would be the best experience for organizations to manage favorites from one place. Or at least have an option to keep the Edge Beta / IE favorites in sync with each other.