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Worth noting that this feature is limited to installed PWAs, so you'd either have to convince the user to install a PWA via the URL bar affordance (which already requires real HTTP…

If you're interested in exactly what data is collected and what it is used for, this whitepaper is fairly exhaustive: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit..…

This was fixed more than a year ago, FWIW.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that GDPR doesn't apply to operating systems. You can control every facet of your diagnostics in Windows settings, see every bit of data collect…

"teh" is a basic spelling error, but I bet you've let it slip through somewhere before

Good example! Though, for the record, WebVR 1.1 is shipping in EdgeHTML 15. Fair to call it a preview, since consumer headsets won't be available until later this month with the Fa…

Per the blog post, we're not localized broadly in the preview, but will be adding more locales/languages as we head towards a stable release. Hope you'll try it again!

The version of Edge you're linking to on HTML5Test there is two years and four major versions out of date. Edge 16 is more than 100 points higher on HTML5Test. More generally, ther…

Settings -> Notifications -> "Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows" is the main one. If you want to really dial it in you can also disable notifications for individ…

Curious if you've tried a Surface Book? I find the touchpad feel and gesture quality to be nearly indistinguishable from a Mac.

This is a bit confusing. Your comments are factually incorrect (there are no forced-full-screen apps in Windows 10, and the default PDF reader is Edge, which is windowed by default…

Edge platform team employee here. A couple thoughts on methodology, focusing on our scripted test (under "stay productive longer" at https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/201…

We get great feedback from users who discover the feature and want it to be discoverable without being obtrusive. If you haven't seen the animation, you might be overestimating it …

It's been true for a while on Windows, going back to IE9: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2011/03/28/browser-power...

We chose the Surface Book because it's instrumented with a chip that allows direct measurement of instantaneous power consumption, which most OEM devices don't have, and because it…

It's a hint to users that reading mode may provide a better experience. When we introduced it, reading mode usage went up; without the (very subtle) animation, users weren't aware …

Actually the tests in the post linked from the Edge blog we're on current stable bits; Brandon's post details additional improvements coming soon. In our testing we're considerably…