Microsoft Edge
Edge is a proprietary, cross-platform web browser developed by Microsoft in 2014. Initially known as "Spartan", Edge replaced Internet Explorer, which had been Microsoft's primary browser for over 20 years.
Edge is included with Windows 10 and Windows 11, and is also available for macOS, iOS/iPadOS, Android and Linux.
Edge used EdgeHTML as its rendering engine until 2019, when it was replaced by Blink, the rendering engine used by Google Chrome. On iOS/iPadOS, Edge uses WebKit as its rendering engine. Edge supports 'IE mode' for backwards compatibility that uses the Trident engine to render pages requiring legacy Internet Explorer features.
See also
- Microsoft Edge on Wikipedia
- Microsoft Edge on microsoft.com
- Related glossary terms:
- Browser
- Rendering engine
- Blink
- Trident
- WebKit
- Other browsers: Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Browser