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[8] [9] [10] In Windows 11, Edge is the only browser available from Microsoft. First made available only for Android and iOS in 2017, [11] [12] in late 2018, Microsoft announced it would completely rebuild Edge as a Chromium-based [13] [14] browser with Blink and V8 engines, which allowed the browser to be ported from Windows 10 to macOS. [15]
A distinctive feature of the engine is that it JIT compiles scripts on a separate CPU core, parallel to the web browser. [1] [2] Though Microsoft has in the past pointed out that other elements, such as rendering and marshalling, are just as important for a browser's overall performance, [3] their improvements to the engine were in response to evolving competing browsers, compared to which IE8 ...
Live Tiles were first introduced in Windows 8. They do what their name implies, and display “live” information, such as weather and so forth.
Microsoft Edge may refer to one or both of two distinct graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft, which include: . Microsoft Edge Legacy, based on Microsoft's proprietary browser engine EdgeHTML, formerly known as simply "Microsoft Edge", released on July 29, 2015, now discontinued
As of November 2024, Windows 11, accounting for 35% of Windows installations worldwide, [180] is the second most popular Windows version in use, with its predecessor Windows 10 still being the most used version in virtually all countries (with Guyana being an exception, where Windows 11 is the most used [181]), having over 2 times the market ...
Microsoft first introduced the EdgeHTML rendering engine as part of Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows Technical Preview build 9879 on November 12, 2014. [8] Microsoft planned to use EdgeHTML both in Internet Explorer and Project Spartan; in Internet Explorer it would exist alongside the Trident 7 engine from Internet Explorer 11, the latter being used for compatibility purposes.
On a Windows system, a background process is either a computer program that does not create a user interface, or a Windows service. The former are started just as any other program is started, e.g., via Start menu. Windows services, on the other hand, are started by Service Control Manager. In Windows Vista and later, they are run in a separate ...
Windows 11 includes Microsoft Copilot for AI features. Microsoft Recall, a controversial snapshot search history AI feature was disabled upon launch, and will be opt-in only once it launches. Recall was widely derided upon its reveal, citing security and privacy concerns, prompting Microsoft to make it an opt-in only feature.