In Windows 11, Edge is the default web browser, as well as the only browser available from Microsoft (for compatibility with Google Chrome).
Īlthough it was created as the successor to Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Explorer 11 remained available alongside Edge on Windows 10 for compatibility until 2023, when it was removed. Microsoft has since terminated security support for the original browser (now referred to as Microsoft Edge Legacy), and Edge is also available on older Windows versions ( Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later were supported until early 2023), as well as Linux.
The new Edge was publicly released in January 2020, and on Xbox platforms in 2021. In late 2018, Microsoft announced it would completely rebuild Edge as a Chromium-based browser with Blink and V8 engines, which allowed the browser to be ported to macOS. Later on, it got ported to Android and iOS as a fork of Google's Chromium open-source project. Released in 2015 as part of Windows 10 and Xbox One, it was initially built with Microsoft's own proprietary browser engine, EdgeHTML, and their Chakra JavaScript engine. Microsoft Edge (or simply Edge) is a proprietary, AI-powered cross-platform web browser created by Microsoft. Proprietary software, based on an open source project Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S system software Linux (specifically Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions)
