Microsoft will integrate an image editor into Edge

Microsoft’s Web browser will soon integrate image editing tools from Photos, the Windows viewer.

It’s no secret that Microsoft has big ambitions for its Edge web browser. A few weeks after revealing its intention to integrate a calculator, a unit converter and a speed test, Microsoft obviously plans to integrate an image editor into its browser.

Leopardeva64-2, a generally knowledgeable redditor when it comes to Microsoft Edge, discovered in the latest version of Edge Canary, that it is now possible to edit images directly in the browser. The option, accessible by right-clicking on an image, incorporates several tools from Photos, Windows’ native image viewer.

It allows you to crop an image, adjust certain parameters (brightness, exposure, contrast, vignetting, etc.), apply filters or even annotate the image. Microsoft has just started deploying these new features, which should therefore arrive gradually in Edge Canary, before arriving soon in the stable version of the browser.

In recent months, the Redmond firm seems to have changed its strategy to adopt its browser. After trying to impose its browser using often questionable strategies, Microsoft has changed course. The company has therefore decided to frequently add new features to its browser to attract new users without forcing their hand. And to achieve this, the firm targets all audiences. For example, it gave gamers a boost by recently unveiling the upcoming arrival of several features that are supposed to make Edge a gaming browser par excellence. Another recent example, Microsoft was testing at the end of June Drop, a new function to easily transfer files from one machine to another.

The Redmond firm also plays the security card. To show users that they can safely browse Edge, it formalized the integration of a VPN provided by Cloudflare a few weeks ago.

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Neowin