With the introduction of Windows 10, Microsoft Edge came in market, this was the update to the Internet Explorer which has lots of security and performance issue.
It was major rebrand in browser category since 1995 by Microsoft. With completely new user interface, it also has a huge list of new features.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still available for users to use while Edge is still the default browser for Windows 10. At any time in near future Microsoft can takes the decision to stop supporting the Internet Explorer as like its previous versions of Windows. Therefore, all users of Internet Explorer are suggested to switch over to Microsoft Edge as soon as you possibly.
Microsoft has released a numbers of updates to the Edge, including several bug fixes and some major feature and functions additions, making sure it can compete other browses likes Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera, etc .
Microsoft Edge has support for extensions and has much faster speed than Internet Explorer, Microsoft claims to refine its new web browser to offer the best possible user experience. Not only for Windows, Microsoft has recently launched versions of Edge for Android and iOS too. And has synchronization feature. Now, user can synchronize data between mobile phone and desktop computers.
Microsoft Edge has a cleaner look than IE 11 and IE 10 or any other version of IE and is very much in line of today’s standards. 2D design, Squared-off corners on tabs and monochrome for the initial coloring of the browser
Features
Here is a few features out of huge list of features
- The biggest benefits of Microsoft Edge is that comes preinstalled with Windows 10 operating System. The advantage of this is that you will not require any third party software or browser in order to start browsing. In case of Firefox or Chrome or other browsers, user has to download and Install it first, Edge will let you save some time if you want to surf the net as soon as you unbox your new Windows 10 computer.
- Another great thing about this software is that it’s not simply a web browser in Windows 10. It is well-integrated into the entire platform of Windows 10, Now user have Cortana voice assistant to perform voice searches or save information to OneDrive without much hassle at all.
- One more big bonus of this web browser is that it is able to present tailored content, particularly relevant to your interests. Based on your web activities, it will provides you news headlines, weather reports or other various content from the Internet that it thinks you may be interested in.
- Edge’s another smartest feature is the ability it gives user to write directly on the web browser window – highlighting parts of the text, making annotations, and much more. This feature is supported across devices, so whether you’re using a mobile, a tablet, laptop, you can simply use pen on screen and annotate things you find as per your interest.
- As like other popular web browsers, Tabs are also there in Microsoft Edge. It has a button for ‘Set these tabs aside’ at the top left of the screen. This button allows user to clear all of the open tabs at once. Later if you want to bring back those tabs set aside in past, you can also do that with one click.
- In Edge, User can ‘mute tabs’ if some video or audio content is playing in one of them, rather than turning off the sound on whole computer.
- ‘Reading List’ feature of Edge allows users to syncs content between different devices.
- Edge has a new rendering engine called EdgeHTML. This engine replaced the Trident engine used in IE. The new Microsoft Edge also doesn’t support legacy technologies such as Browser Helper Objects and ActiveX, and instead it uses an extension system, like other competitors i.e. Firefox and Chrome.