APRIL 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 51Excel (via the small ellipsis tool within the Collections
sidebar), Edge creates an Excel spreadsheet on a new
web page, then populates it with a summary of the
metadata it collects: the price, the product’s rating,
thestore,anda link,amongothers.Althoughit’sa
littlelatefor the holidays, Collections is still a powerful
shopping research tool.
Edge also supports Progressive Web Apps, though
chances are you’ll miss them entirely. If you visit a
site like Google News using Edge, a wispy ‘+’ sign
will appear in the URL bar. Clicking it will download
the Google News site as an HTML-based web app,
allowing you to ‘bookmark’ it in your Start menu as an
actual app. In reality, this probably won’t make a lick of
If you import data
from Google
Chrome, extensions
carry over as well