We’re excited to announce the launch of our newly revamped Edge Add-ons website, designed to enhance your browsing experience through extensions and themes. This update brings a host of improvements aimed at making it easier for you to discover and acquire add-ons like extensions and themes through a more modern, functional, and actionable store. Improved […]
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Feb
Feb
The Microsoft Store on Windows is the best place to discover AI experiences for your PC from Microsoft and our rich developer ecosystem. In 2023, we launched the AI Hub in Store to help our users find great AI-powered apps. In the last two years, we’ve seen hundreds of new AI-capable apps join the Microsoft […]
Microsoft Edge is racing into the new year with faster and more responsive features than ever before. Starting with Microsoft Edge 132, many of the browser’s most important features, such as Downloads, Drop, History, and the inPrivate new tab experience are now a lot faster. In fact, no less than 14 different areas of the […]
Microsoft Edge is very pleased to announce our participation in the fifth edition of the Interop project: Interop 2025. We’re joining forces with our colleagues at Apple, Bocoup, Igalia, Google, and Mozilla, to improve interoperability on the web platform. Interoperability matters because it ensures that the code you write for the web will work the […]
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Feb
Feb
Starting with Microsoft Edge 134 (and Chrome 134), we’re happy to announce the availability of a new HTML meta tag, <meta name=”application-title”>, which allows developers to control the text that appears in the title bar of their installed applications. When developing a web application, giving your users a good experience is important. Across the various […]
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Feb
Feb
In this post, we’re announcing, and requesting feedback on a new proposal to extend the Notifications API to allow web apps to send incoming call notifications. Web applications have been able to alert users via notifications for about a decade now. By using the Notifications API, a web app can display messages in the operating […]
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Jan
Jan
In today’s digital age, browser users spend significant time reading content online. The contrast ratio between the text and its background is therefore very important to ensure comfort and to reduce eye strain. That’s why, based on your feedback, we had already enhanced text rendering in Microsoft Edge back in 2021. Today, we’re taking things […]
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Jan
Jan
AI is moving closer to the edge, and Copilot+ PCs are leading the way. With the availability of cloud hosted DeepSeek R1 available on Azure AI Foundry, we’re bringing NPU-optimized versions of DeepSeek-R1 directly to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Qualcomm Snapdragon X first, followed by Intel Core Ultra 200V and others. The first release, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B […]
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Jan
Jan
At the 2024 Ignite conference last November, we announced scareware blocker for Microsoft Edge which will provide a new, first line of defense against scams. Today, we’re excited to share more about how it works and invite you to preview the feature. You’ve seen it yourself. There are more scams than ever before, on your […]
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Jan
Jan
We announced the release of Microsoft Edge Game Assist (Preview) just before the holidays, and we’ve been thrilled by the response from players. Today, we’re excited to share that we’re expanding the preview of Game Assist to Edge Stable, making it even easier for players to try it without installing special software or changing your […]