Microsoft Edge now has coupon and promo codes built in for online shopping

Microsoft is adding a new coupons feature to its Edge browser nowadays. Coupons and promo codes bequeath appear inside Edge as an alert when you're shopping online, and they can atomic number 4 automatically applied to a basket when you're ready to tab out. The coupons feature as wel includes price comparisons, so if you're shopping online, Edge can surface dissimilar retailers that might offer items at lower prices.

Microsoft introduced price comparisons in Edge just weeks ago as part of its Collections feature, but this sunrise coupon experience goes even further. It's part of a big push by Microsoft to set down Edge as the browser for online shopping, but the comparisons and coupons only work for United States users of the browser right now.

If you're not interested in online shopping, Edge is also getting some more productivity improvements that are particularly useful for students. Microsoft is adding in the ability to annotate and add text notes to PDFs, a highly requested feature. And one and only of the top requested features, according to Microsoft, is devising a rejoinder to Edge: inking. As part of the new screenshot tool, you'll now be capable to digitally ink and annotate screenshots.

Microsoft is too adding the ability to capture a gas-filled webpage in a screenshot later this month. Nigh existing screenshot tools bu screenshot what you see without the ability to capture an entire webpage or scroll as you grab the screen. Microsoft's new Butt screenshot tool testament automatically gyre down a webpage so you can becharm everything in a single figure of speech.

Lastly, Word and Outlook will also handle copied URLs from Edge very much more elegantly soon. Microsoft testament shorten provident links into friendly URLs when you copy links from the address bar in Edge and paste them into Word or Outlook. That's useful if you put on't want to use bit.ly or another link shortening overhaul, and you'll also Be fit to switch back to the longer URL in the Word or Mentality circumstance menus.