

Microsoft released the Chromium-based Edge to the Xbox Insider Alpha Skip Ahead group on March 6, 2021, and to all users in September 2021. Microsoft stopped releasing security patches for Edge Legacy from March 9, 2021, and released a security update on April 13, 2021, which replaced Edge Legacy with Chromium-based Edge. In June 2020, Microsoft began automatic rollout of the new version via Windows Update for Windows 7, 8.1, and Windows 10 versions from 1903 to 2004. Microsoft announced the public release of the new Edge on January 15, 2020. In December 2018, Microsoft announced plans to rebuild the browser as Chromium-based with Blink and V8 engines. Įdge was initially built with Microsoft's own proprietary browser engine EdgeHTML and their Chakra JavaScript engine, a version now referred to as Microsoft Edge Legacy. The Chromium-based Edge replaced Internet Explorer (IE) in Windows 11, as the default web browser (for compatibility with Google Chrome).

It was first bundled with Windows 10 and Xbox One in 2015, and later released for other platforms: Android and iOS in 2017, macOS and older Windows versions ( Windows 7 and later) in 2019, and Linux in 2020. Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser created and developed by Microsoft. Proprietary software, based on open source components Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S system software Users of Microsoft Edge gave it a rating of 4 out of 5 stars.Linux (specifically Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions) Microsoft Edge runs on the following operating systems: Android/iOS/Windows/Mac/Linux. The most prevalent version is 1.33, which is used by 49 % of all installations. It was initially added to our database on. The latest version of Microsoft Edge is 1.42, released on.

It was checked for updates 189,689 times by the users of our client application UpdateStar during the last month. Microsoft Edge is a Shareware software in the category Internet developed by Microsoft. While initial versions were based on a custom browser engine developed at Microsoft (EdgeHTML) and Microsoft's own JavaScript engine Chakra, later versions are based on the Chromium browser with the browser engine Blink and the JavaScript engine V8. It has replaced Internet Explorer (IE) is the default web browser on Windows. Edge is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft.
