en.Wedoany.com Reported - Microsoft issued an official announcement on May 13, unveiling a major AI feature update for the Edge browser, with both mobile and desktop versions simultaneously gaining Copilot's cross-tab information summarization capability. Sean Lyndersay, Vice President of Edge Product, wrote in a blog post: "Edge shortens the distance from the first tab to the final plan, no matter where you are."
The mobile version is the key incremental part of this update. The multi-tab reasoning capability of Copilot, previously only available on desktop, has entered the Edge mobile app for the first time. After user authorization, Copilot can directly read and analyze the content of all open tabs, answer questions based on this, compare product specifications, generate summaries, or extract key information from multiple pages. The operation path is highly simplified—users click the Copilot button on mobile, select specific tabs or directly use the "@all" command to reference all open pages, and can obtain an integrated cross-page answer without needing to jump between tabs or copy and paste. Microsoft's official explanation emphasizes that this feature does not read silently in the background; it executes only after the user explicitly initiates a conversation request and grants authorization. A "clear visual cue" will be displayed on the page, indicating that Copilot is reading or responding.
The multi-tab reasoning capability simultaneously introduced on the desktop covers high-frequency multi-page scenarios such as product comparison, academic literature review, and travel itinerary planning. A hands-on test case by PCMag showed that after opening multiple hotel booking pages simultaneously, users could generate a side-by-side comparison table with one click through Copilot, compiling key details that originally required manual organization into a structured summary. The Verge, citing Microsoft's announcement, pointed out that the ability for users to extract information from different tabs and perform cross-validation is one of the core capabilities accumulated during the Copilot Mode experimental phase. These capabilities have now been decoupled from the experimental mode and become a native component of the Edge browser.
The Journeys feature, simultaneously introduced on mobile, uses AI to cluster browsing history by topic, reorganizing interrupted tasks into revisitable project cards. Each card comes with a summary and suggested next steps, used to reconnect shopping decisions, travel planning, or learning research interrupted days ago. The mobile deployment of Copilot Voice and Vision allows users to share their screen directly while browsing web pages and ask follow-up questions about page content via voice, with Copilot interpreting charts, text, or form information displayed on the screen in real time.
The new tab page has been simultaneously redesigned on desktop and mobile, integrating conversation, search, and page browsing into a unified entry point. Sean Lyndersay publicly stated during the early testing phase of this feature: "So far, browsers have meant users doing everything themselves—typing, clicking, jumping between tabs, scrambling between multiple tasks. Browsers have always been the gateway to the web, but they have never truly worked alongside us." This statement is highly consistent with the product logic of this update, which internalizes AI from an add-on layer into the browser's own capabilities.
This update also announced the official retirement of Copilot Mode. This mode first launched on Edge in July 2025 as an experimental feature, allowing users to use AI tools like multi-tab analysis, task planning, and content organization in a standalone mode. After less than a year of testing, Microsoft believes these AI capabilities have reached a maturity level suitable for full deployment and decided to migrate them from the standalone mode to the browser's default interaction layer. Microsoft stated in the announcement that users can "choose the features you want to use and turn off the ones you don't need," and all AI-driven operations are executed under the premise of user authorization.
In a review on May 14, Digital Trends pointed out that Microsoft chose to complete the AI deployment for Edge mobile before Google Chrome's Gemini upgrade, expected to roll out in June, creating a window of opportunity for the product's differentiation on mobile. Currently, the Copilot multi-tab feature has been simultaneously rolled out to desktop and mobile users in all regions where Copilot is available, while the Journeys and tab-to-podcast features are initially offered in English-speaking markets.
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