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Figure 6-17. Windows offers to help you pick up where you left off (on other phones, tablets, or
computers) in two places: the Cortana panel (left) and as a notification (right).
Suppose that, on the train home from work, you do some work on your
laptop (or iPhone, or Android phone) in a Microsoft Office program, and
you visit a website in Microsoft Edge. When you get home, you can fire up
your desktop PC—and, lo, a notification appears, offering to let you resume
what you were doing on this computer! If you open the Cortana panel,
you’ll see similar links there, too (Figure 6-17).
It’s all designed to make your work life more seamless.
Amazingly, these buttons also incorporate documents and websites you’ve
visited using Microsoft apps on Macs, Android phones, and iPhones!
In the unlikely event that you don’t find these offers helpful, you can shut
the whole thing down. Open Settings → Cortana → Permissions →
“Manage the information Cortana can access from this device.” Turn off the
three switches you find there.
