Microsoft has just pushed the edge drop function to the Canary development channel, so that users can easily share files and notes across devices through a browser Windows latest points out that this function is similar to the "saved message" of telegrams - storing text or media in the cloud for subsequent access. If you are interested, you can click edge drop on the browser toolbar to see that it has a fairly simple UI design.
Edge drop drop down panel
Windows Latest The actual measurement shows that users can search the edge drop [cloud disk] in almost real time( https://promotion.aliyun.com/ntms/yunparter/invite.html?userCode=p0hfitud ) Clean up all content, including applications, text, notes, files, and other types of attachments.
Thanks to the integration of Microsoft cloud services, the upload and download speeds of edge drop are quite satisfactory. In fact, Microsoft did not develop a new cloud storage service for edge, but directly called onedrive.
So please remember to log in to your Microsoft account in advance before officially enabling this function. In addition, if onedrive storage space is insufficient, the edge drop experience will also be affected.
This feature can be opened in "settings → appearance" of Microsoft edge
After linking edge drop to your Microsoft account, you can click the "send" icon on the toolbar to launch the "drag and drop" panel. You can then send your first file or comment by selecting the button or typing in the message box.
As shown in the figure, mayank Parmar sent a simple test message to the edge drop cloud disk, and then it can be synchronized on the edge browser of the device with this experimental function enabled.
Then they tried to upload a file called mpv Exe, the result shows that it can be used normally on another device.
For old telecom users, edge drop obviously has a lot in common. However, in one of the tabs, edge drop also clearly shows the integration with onedrive cloud disk.
Although you can still insist on using onedrive to share files, it is obviously inferior to edge drop in terms of convenience.
For Microsoft, edge drop can attract more users to choose office Or onedrive premium subscription package, which is obviously a good deal.
In addition, Microsoft is also developing other new features for edge, such as the recently tested virtual private network supported by cloudflare.
Although this so-called "secure network mode" function will not jump out of the current geographical location, it can still use one of the nearest cloudflare servers to encrypt your network communication data.