Below that are links to popular websites, and below those is a customized news and information feed, that can display personalized news articles, sports scores, and weather information based on your Microsoft account. Open Edge and you are greeted with a clean home page that asks, 'Where to next?' above a combined search and address bar. I did run into some bugs on some webpages with Edge, but mainly stuff loaded fast and accurately.Įdge's default home page is informative and inviting Microsoft does note that it has done some work to make sure websites that are designed for browsers like Safari or Chrome still work well in Edge, which has long been a problem with IE. Edge uses its own rendering engine, which was built off of IE 11's engine, but slimmed down. Edge feels really lightweight and fast - and in some cases bare-bones - which is a refreshing change from IE.Īfter IE, Microsoft has some work to do to rebuild users' trust, and the company says the days of cluttered, unwanted task bars and constantly changing home screens from nefarious apps are long gone. Microsoft said it built Edge to be clean, tight, and responsive. But Edge is the default, and it will be available across Microsoft’s product line, from PCs to smartphones to Holo Lens and Surface Hub. And I should say up top that Internet Explorer also comes with Windows 10, though it’s buried in the OS, and Microsoft says that’s largely for compatibility with legacy enterprise apps. That browser is Edge.Įdge comes with Windows 10 out of the box. It built an entirely new browser from scratch, one that would shed all of the baggage of Internet Explorer and offer a modern, fast web browsing experience for Windows users. With Windows 10 (check out our full review here), Microsoft went back to the drawing board and scrapped everything it had done so far with Internet Explorer. A lot of people turned to alternatives, such as Google Chrome, as a result. Over the years, Microsoft’s home-built browser became bloated, insecure, confusing to use, and just plain hated by many users. For two decades, the default web browsing experience in Windows has been Internet Explorer.

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