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. During development (codenamed Anaheim), Microsoft made preview builds of Edge available on Windows 7, 8 / 8.1, 10, and macOS. 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)
