Oh, and the team wanted to deliver something that is “familiar” (you’ll hear that word used a lot in Windows 10’s marketing) “but still felt fresh.” In other words, Microsoft was attempting the impossible. Build a browser that is “personal and productive,” fitting in with what Microsoft is trying to do overall as a company.

Build a browser that is trusted and lets people feel safe.Build a browser that feels “responsive, fast, and lightweight” but that is also “clean, doesn’t get in your way, and also works great with the modern web.”.He then laid out Microsoft’s three goals with Edge: “Knowing that browsing is still one of the very top activities that people do on a PC, we knew there was an opportunity, and really an obligation, to push the web browsing experience … and so that’s what we’ve done with Microsoft Edge,” DeBruyne told VentureBeat. We sat down with Drew DeBruyne, director of program management at Microsoft, and Jason Weber, group program manager at Microsoft, to dig a little deeper into Edge. Microsoft is finally giving Chrome and Firefox a run for their money, but Edge is still lacking in many areas.

Edge offers a lot of new features and functionality, while remaining a lean tool for browsing the web. You undoubtedly want to know: is Edge any good? The short answer is: Yes, yes it is.

Changing the default browser on an operating system is a massive undertaking, especially if that operating system has always been so closely tied to its browser. Yet it makes sense: This is a completely necessary step if IE is ever going to have a proper successor.ĭespite Chrome’s and Firefox’s gains, IE still dominates in terms of browser market share, and that’s mainly due to the fact that Windows is the desktop king. It’s still difficult to wrap your head around the fact that Microsoft is ditching all the legacy that is IE and launching a new browser built from the ground up.

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