These are the novelties that Microsoft will bring to Edge

Yesterday was the day Apple announced some of its new products In the absence of the expected iPhone 12, we were able to meet the new Apple Watch Series 6, a cheap Watch and a new iPad. And along with the new models, we have seen how the arrival of iOS 14, iPadoOS 14 and watchOS 7 was announced in a few hours.

Apple releases new versions of its operating systems and in the case of iOS 14 (also iPadOS14), a large part of the applications in the App Store catalog will benefit from the new functions if so it is estimated by the developers.This is the case of Microsoft, which has already prepared the updates for Outlook, OneDrive and Edge with a good handful of improvements and new features that we are now going to discover.

Improvements and news

• Default Applications. A day ago we saw how Edge, in the beta version, could already be set as the default browser on iOS. A possibility that now also reaches Outlook and the stable version of Edge.
• If you have iOS 14 or iPadOS 14 installed you can add widgets on the screen of Microsoft Outlook and OneDrive and thus be aware of our cloud or our calendar at a glance.

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• If you use OneDrive with a personal account, you can view your photo memories with the In This Day feature, highlighting photos taken that day in previous years, a function that reminds many of the one offered by Instagram.If, on the other hand, you do not have any photos on that day, the most recent photos you have saved in the cloud will be displayed."

• Microsoft Outlook improves with the arrival of watchOS 7 and complications for email and calendar are optimized Now, the complication of calendar will include an indication of whether our status is free or busy according to the color we have chosen for the color of the Outlook calendar and email.

• In the case of iPadOS 14, Microsoft is updating the Outlook app to take advantage of new capabilities and for example, users will be able to write their emails and messages by hand, to via Scribble function, switch to electronic text
• You can add hand-drawn illustrations or diagrams to emails and you can use your pen to write your keyword search or fill in the text fields to quickly schedule a meeting.

• Outlook will also support rich formatting on iPad, so once your handwriting is converted to text, you can add added structure and dimension to your email communications; simply touch the stylus symbol on the keyboard to see the formatting options.
• With iPadOS 14 you can multitask and open two applications at the same time. This allows you to open Outlook and Edge to copy and drag text and links into an email, helping you create and send engaging and informative emails.

• Microsoft introduces the ability to drag and drop files and photos into Outlook. This allows you to open the Photos app at the same time as Outlook to drag and drop a selection of images as email attachments.
• In addition, by the fall, OneDrive is expected to enable offline editing of Office files. Word, Excel or PowerPoint files can be downloaded to an iPhone or iPad for use while offline.

Via | Microsoft