Microsoft Edge is the default web browser on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 11, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, replacing Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer Mobile. As of September 2022, Edge is used by 11 percent of PCs worldwide. In May 2022, according to StatCounter, Microsoft Edge became the second most popular browser in the world, overtaking Apple's Safari (in some countries, such as the United States, Edge is 3rd most popular, where Edge has 14% share, slightly behind Safari's 16% share). 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 Linux (specifically Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions)

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