Developers are optimizing for Chrome, and Google has also been creating Chrome-only web services because it’s often the first to adopt emerging web technologies.
So why is Microsoft changing its rendering engine? Why now? Edge has fallen massively behind Chrome in terms of market share, and it’s getting to the point where Chrome is the new IE6. Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeĮdge is coming to Windows 7, Windows 8, and the Mac All you’ll ultimately notice is that websites will render more consistently once Microsoft makes this under-the-hood change. If you already use Edge on Windows, then that won’t change. Microsoft Edge isn’t going away, nor is the brand name. “People using Microsoft Edge (and potentially other browsers) will experience improved compatibility with all web sites, while getting the best-possible battery life and hardware integration on all kinds of Windows devices.” “Ultimately, we want to make the web-experience better for many different audiences,” explains Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Windows. It’s a big move that means Microsoft is joining the open-source community in a much bigger way for the web. This means Edge will soon be powered by Blink and the V8 JavaScript engines.
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The software giant is beginning to rebuild Microsoft Edge to run on Chromium, the same open-source web rendering engine that powers Google’s Chrome browser. Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its Edge browser today.
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