Microsoft's Edge Browser Gets Shared Workspaces, New Security Features

Microsoft today announced a few user-facing updates to its Edge browser. The most important of these is likely Edge Workspaces, a new feature (currently in preview) that will allow teams to share browser tabs. From a report: Microsoft argues that this feature can be useful when bringing on new team members to an existing project. Instead of sharing lots of links and files, the team can simply share a single like to an Edge Workspace (which will then likely consist of lots of links and files, but hey, at least it's just one link to share). As the project evolves, the tabs are updated in real time. I guess that's a use case. We've seen our share of extensions that do similar things, none of which ever get very popular. Meanwhile, teams share these links and files in other ways (think Confluent, etc.). On the security front, Microsoft is bringing typo protection for website URLs to the browser, promising to protect "users from accidentally navigating to online fraud sites after misspelling the website address by suggesting the website that the user intended." Nothing too complicated here, and a useful feature for sure.

mmm "Shared Workspaces" in your browser

[oldgraybeard]

Yea! that might open some issues requiring New Security Features. But then Microsoft has a lot of experience with Security Issues so this should not be a problem. Trust Microsoft

Microsoft x Google = Can't be trusted

[schwit1]

https://privacytests.org/ [privacytests.org]

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[thegarbz]

No one cares. Especially not my employer where every PC has just Edge on it. No really, if privacy was some kind of major selling point Brave or Firefox would be popular. Instead Firefox is in the lower half of single digit precents, and Brave doesn't even qualify on most lists.

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[thegarbz]

I would counter you, but the GP already did it, and it's clear you didn't read the link in the post and as such have zero context in the conversation you just vomited over. Do you pride yourself on your ignorance and looking like an idiot?

Workspace is a circle of motion.

[myootnt]

A new way to aggregate and organize a collection of links and files for collaboration in an easily accessible and manageable fashion! Shiny! Revolutionary! What a novel idea! Here's a plastic bag, kid, ignore the suffocating baby warning label and play away.

Sounds like...

[93 Escort Wagon]

Microsoft has come up with a really crappy replacement for Trello.

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[OneOfMany07]

Or very limited VPN. Or...

People share web pages like this already and it's a terrible idea. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Wonder how long until there is a shared list of drugs or people for sale? Or user credentials? Or zombie PC's to DDoS with? Or...

So why not a wiki

[bloodhawk]

perhaps this has more features than indicated? if not why not just put your links and files in a Wiki, same result and much easier to manage.

Link for workspace

[Acum Amcum]

But.. can you share a link to the workspace? ðY£

We already have this

[DarkRookie2]

We already have a page with all the important links. Last I looked, there was one made for each department.