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Reviews<br />
Though Microsoft<br />
hasn’t talked about<br />
it much, 3D Builder<br />
is an excellent 3D<br />
app within Windows<br />
10. Here, we’ve<br />
imported one of<br />
Microsoft’s pre-made<br />
3D objects<br />
way and discover that the total<br />
printing price is probably much<br />
too expensive to justify the effort.<br />
As for the HoloLens? Or the<br />
mixed-reality headsets Microsoft’s<br />
talked up since last year? Both<br />
should serve as displays of sorts<br />
for virtual objects, yet neither is<br />
widely available. (Windows Mixed<br />
Reality, aka Windows Holographic, is<br />
available only for developers, we’re<br />
told.) So far, Microsoft’s VR promises<br />
are struggling toward viability.<br />
Edge’s new features include<br />
Netflix 4K, e-reading<br />
Though many readers wrote off<br />
the bare-bones Edge that debuted<br />
along with Windows 10, it improved<br />
with the Anniversary Update,<br />
and the trend continues with the<br />
Creators Update. Here are the four<br />
key additions: the ability to import<br />
favourites from other browsers,<br />
new tools to organise tabs, Edge’s<br />
debut as an e-reader, and its<br />
upgraded ability to play Netflix<br />
at 4K resolutions.<br />
Reading books via Edge<br />
is functional, lacking some<br />
conveniences but offering a<br />
reasonable alternative to an app or<br />
an e-reader (see page 98). As for<br />
Microsoft’s 4K Netflix claims – yes,<br />
we’ve proven they’re true, and no<br />
other <strong>PC</strong> browser can say the same.<br />
A new feature in Edge, the ability<br />
to set aside a tab or groups of tabs,<br />
is useful but needs refinement. Let’s<br />
say that you began researching a<br />
trip to Hawaii, opened a few tabs<br />
on what to see or do in the islands,<br />
then called it a night. Normally,<br />
you might bookmark the tabs for a<br />
later date. Edge allows you to take<br />
that group of tabs and ‘tombstone’<br />
them on the left rail. Each time you<br />
set the tabs aside, a new group is<br />
formed, which you can’t label or<br />
add to, unfortunately. Each group<br />
of tabs can be reloaded whenever<br />
you want, even after a reboot. A<br />
somewhat related feature lets<br />
you preview tabs as thumbnails.<br />
You can supposedly import<br />
favourites/bookmarks as well as<br />
passwords from the two most<br />
The under-the-hood<br />
tools within Netflix<br />
allowed us to prove<br />
that yes, Edge is<br />
the only <strong>PC</strong> browser<br />
to play Netflix<br />
streams at 4K<br />
<strong>July</strong> <strong>2017</strong> www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews 23
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