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2026 18

  1. Edge is faster on Windows with Accelerated App Launches
  2. Faster protection, fewer interruptions: How Microsoft Edge is rethinking updates
  3. New in Edge for developers – Create better components and make your site agent-ready
  4. Faster reviews and quality recognition for Microsoft Edge extensions
  5. Calling for Interop 2027 proposals
  6. WebView2 is moving to a 2-week release cadence
  7. Moving the Microsoft Edge extensions ecosystem forward with Manifest Version 3
  8. Bring your security stack into Edge for Business — with support for more partners
  9. New in Edge for developers – Style layout gaps, improve keyboard accessibility and migrate your PWA to a new origin
  10. Faster updates, enterprise-friendly schedule: the new Microsoft Edge release cycle
  11. Expanding on‑device AI in Microsoft Edge: New models and APIs for the web
  12. New in Edge for Business: AI for work, safe from day one
  13. New updates to Edge across desktop and mobile
  14. Engineering secure passkey sync in Microsoft Password Manager
  15. Monitor and improve your web app’s load performance
  16. Making keyboard navigation effortless
  17. Microsoft Edge and Interop 2026
  18. Supporting safer and scalable online learning in K–12

2025 34

  1. Making complex web apps faster
  2. The Web Install API is ready for testing
  3. Edge for Business presents: the world’s first secure enterprise AI browser
  4. Microsoft recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape on application streaming and enterprise browsers
  5. Secure the browser your way with new Edge for Business connectors
  6. Considerations for Safe Agentic Browsing
  7. Unlock text editing use cases with highlightsFromPoint and other FromPoint APIs
  8. Calling for Interop 2026 proposals
  9. Removing -ms-high-contrast and embracing standards-based forced colors in Microsoft Edge
  10. The Edge 2025 web platform top developer needs dashboard
  11. Introducing secure password deployment in Microsoft Edge for Business
  12. Debuting new enhanced controls for picture-in-picture in Microsoft Edge
  13. Bring your PWA closer to users with App Actions on Windows
  14. Empowering developers and organizations: Microsoft Edge innovations at Build
  15. Simplified access to AI in Microsoft Edge: Introducing the Prompt and Writing Assistance APIs
  16. Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify
  17. Introducing Edge for Business security connectors
  18. Contextual logging with console.context()
  19. Significant performance improvements with Edge 134
  20. Deprecating window.external.getHostEnvironmentValue()
  21. New advanced data protection for BYOD and AI in Edge for Business
  22. Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
  23. Request for developer feedback: controlling the performance of embedded web content
  24. Empowering Microsoft Edge Add-ons developers with faster reviews
  25. Introducing our new and improved Edge Add-ons website
  26. More Edge features get a performance boost
  27. Microsoft Edge and Interop 2025
  28. Control your installed web application title
  29. Request for feedback: Incoming call notifications API for web apps
  30. Better text contrast for all Chromium-based browsers on Windows
  31. Stand up to scareware with scareware blocker, now available in preview in Microsoft Edge
  32. Expanding Microsoft Edge Game Assist (Preview) to Edge Stable
  33. Microsoft joins the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
  34. Enhancing the security of Microsoft Edge Extensions with the new Publish API – What’s next?

2024 22

  1. Introducing Microsoft Edge Game Assist (Preview)—a seamless, full-featured in-game browser
  2. Holiday Shopping and Planning Made Easy with AI-Powered Edge
  3. Ignite 2024: Transform your workday with the latest Edge for Business features
  4. Customize page colors & scrollbars in Edge to improve browsing & accessibility
  5. Limited Preview of Privacy-Preserving Ads API coming to Microsoft Edge
  6. Enhancing the security of Microsoft Edge extensions with the new Publish API
  7. Tame your workday with Microsoft Edge for Business
  8. Taking control of your browser performance when using extensions with Microsoft Edge
  9. Looking forward to an Interop 2025 that addresses your top needs
  10. Seamless SVG copy-paste on the web
  11. More magical experiences from AI-powered Edge to personalize and streamline the way you browse
  12. An even faster Microsoft Edge
  13. Microsoft Edge for Business: Revolutionizing your business with AI, security and productivity
  14. Control Edge memory usage with resource controls
  15. Deprecating support for -ms-high-contrast and -ms-high-contrast-adjust
  16. Improving text editing on the web, one feature at a time
  17. Introducing the Edge 2024 web platform top developer needs dashboard
  18. Contributing to Speedometer 3.0: Capturing real-world challenges on the web
  19. New Privacy-Preserving Ads API coming to Microsoft Edge
  20. A new way to build custom web editing experiences with EditContext
  21. Edge is faster than ever before on Macs with M2
  22. Microsoft Edge and Interop 2024

2023 18

  1. Inside the all-new Edge DevTools user interface
  2. Navigate the unexpected: using Copilot in Edge and DevTools
  3. Latest innovations for Microsoft Edge for Business – your secure enterprise browser optimized for AI
  4. Microsoft Edge WebView2 now available for Xbox apps
  5. Microsoft Edge for Business is now available, helping organizations maximize productivity and security
  6. Bing Chat Enterprise is in preview for Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 licenses for faculty users
  7. Publish your PWA to the Microsoft Store on Windows for free with PWABuilder
  8. Collaborating with the Office Performance team for better web performance tools
  9. Collaborating with Open Web Docs for great PWA docs
  10. Sidebar Extensions: Boost your users’ productivity with Microsoft Edge Add-ons
  11. Bing Chat Enterprise, your AI-powered chat for work, available in Microsoft Edge sidebar
  12. Fighting notification spam in Microsoft Edge
  13. Introducing the “Browser essentials” feature in Microsoft Edge
  14. Microsoft Edge Workspaces public preview is now available
  15. Taking control of your application’s title bar
  16. Video super resolution in Microsoft Edge
  17. Adobe and Microsoft Bring Industry-Leading Acrobat PDF Experience to 1.4 Billion Windows Users through Microsoft Edge
  18. The truth about CSS selector performance

2022 26

  1. Delivering Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime to managed Windows 10 devices
  2. Microsoft Edge and WebView2 ending support for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1; Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 support extends to October 2023
  3. Sleeping Tabs in Microsoft Edge: Saving extra resources when you need it most
  4. Manifest V3 and Microsoft Edge Add-ons
  5. Website typo protection defends against fraud including phishing, malware, and other scams
  6. Inspired by challenges in your workday: latest innovations and updates from Microsoft Edge
  7. More reliable web defense
  8. Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
  9. WebView2 is now Generally Available for WinUI 2 (UWP) apps
  10. The new sidebar in Microsoft Edge helps you multitask smarter
  11. Disk caching in Microsoft Edge
  12. Delivering the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime to Windows 10 Consumers
  13. Debug the web in 3D with the 3D View tool
  14. What’s new for Microsoft Edge at Build 2022
  15. Find and manage your installed apps and sites
  16. Styling `select` elements for real
  17. 30 days of PWA: Fall in love with Progressive Web Apps
  18. Retrieve source maps securely in production in Microsoft Edge DevTools
  19. Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge: Save even more resources with recent updates
  20. Appears to say: Microsoft Edge now provides auto-generated image labels
  21. Microsoft Edge and Interop 2022
  22. Memory tooling improvements in DevTools for Retainers
  23. Unminifying function names in DevTools performance profiles
  24. Test IE mode in Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer Driver
  25. Getting started with Protocol Handlers for your web app
  26. Looking back at Microsoft Edge for developers in 2021

2021 26

  1. Debug memory leaks with the Microsoft Edge Detached Elements tool
  2. Cloud Site List Management experience for IE mode in Microsoft Edge now generally available
  3. Generate citations for research using Microsoft Edge
  4. Microsoft Edge celebrates customers moving to IE mode, Linux, and new search innovations
  5. Microsoft Edge features help give you the most out of Microsoft 365 to reduce the pain of context switching
  6. Learn to build great Progressive Web Apps
  7. Improving how Microsoft Edge processes appear in Task Manager
  8. Make Microsoft Edge DevTools your own
  9. How to opt-in to the Extended Stable release cycle option beginning with Microsoft Edge 94
  10. Improving contrast in Microsoft Edge DevTools: A bugfix case study
  11. Improving font rendering in Microsoft Edge
  12. Available for preview: Automatic HTTPS helps keep your browsing more secure
  13. What’s new for Microsoft Edge at Microsoft Build 2021
  14. Preview Microsoft Math Solver in Microsoft Edge
  15. Joining forces on better browser compatibility in 2021
  16. Serving our customers more effectively with new release cycles for Microsoft Edge
  17. Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop application support ends today
  18. Microsoft Edge 89: Delivering improved browser performance to get the job done
  19. Pivoting to the future with Microsoft Edge
  20. Six time-saving tips for using the DevTools Console
  21. Making Service Workers easier to debug for Progressive Web Applications and more
  22. Introducing adaptive notification requests in Microsoft Edge
  23. What you need to know about kiosk mode when support for Microsoft Edge Legacy ends
  24. Welcome Open Web Docs
  25. Microsoft Edge 88 Privacy and Security Updates
  26. How to investigate Microsoft Edge’s memory usage on Windows

2020 39

  1. Sleeping Tabs in Microsoft Edge: Delivering better browser performance
  2. Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Edge WebView2 for .NET and Fixed Version distribution mode
  3. Improving notifications and badging in Microsoft Edge
  4. How Microsoft Edge and other applications manage memory
  5. New updates make Microsoft Edge your daily dashboard for work
  6. Safety and privacy in Microsoft Edge
  7. Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux
  8. Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability
  9. ICYMI – Recapping Microsoft Edge at Ignite 2020
  10. Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsoft Edge
  11. Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code
  12. Microsoft Edge’s multi-process architecture
  13. Building a faster, leaner, and more efficient Microsoft Edge
  14. Styling for Windows high contrast with new standards for forced colors
  15. Introducing Source Order Viewer in the Microsoft Edge DevTools
  16. Update on Adobe Flash Player End of Support
  17. Collections is now available on the Microsoft Edge mobile app
  18. Introducing the Microsoft Edge enterprise roadmap and release schedule
  19. Reducing distractions with quiet notification requests
  20. Multitasking improvements in Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge
  21. Introducing the Storage Access API
  22. Microsoft Edge enterprise sync services are now available for Microsoft 365 Business Premium
  23. ICYMI – Recapping Microsoft Edge at Build 2020
  24. Improving Memory Usage in Microsoft Edge
  25. Introducing an improved spellcheck experience in Microsoft Edge
  26. Introducing the new surf game in Microsoft Edge
  27. Everything new from Microsoft Edge at Build 2020
  28. Using multiple profiles at work and at home is now easier with Microsoft Edge
  29. Get an edge while working from home
  30. Scrolling personality improvements in Microsoft Edge
  31. Plan for change: TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 soon to be disabled by default
  32. Update on Stable channel releases for Microsoft Edge
  33. Improving DevTools accessibility in Microsoft Edge
  34. Protecting users from potentially unwanted applications in Microsoft Edge
  35. Simplifying Microsoft Edge configuration profiles for Jamf Pro
  36. New optimizations boost performance in preview builds of Microsoft Edge
  37. Bringing the Microsoft Edge DevTools to more languages
  38. Debug z-index stacking content with 3D View in the Microsoft Edge DevTools
  39. Upgrading to the new Microsoft Edge

2019 22

  1. Announcing the draft Security Baseline for Microsoft Edge version 79
  2. Get started building extensions for the new Microsoft Edge
  3. Try out WebView2 with the new interactive API sample
  4. Get started with Collections in Microsoft Edge
  5. Improving Tracking Prevention in Microsoft Edge
  6. Find your flow with the Enterprise New Tab Page
  7. Getting your sites ready for the new Microsoft Edge
  8. Join the Microsoft Edge team next week at Ignite 2019
  9. Announcing the webhint v1 browser extension for Microsoft Edge
  10. Update on removing Flash from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
  11. Sign-in and sync with work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge Insider builds
  12. Collections is now available to test in the Canary channel
  13. Bringing cloud powered voices to Microsoft Edge Insiders
  14. An update on disabling VBScript in Internet Explorer 11
  15. The next version of Microsoft Edge: Enterprise evaluation and roadmap
  16. Debug the DOM in Visual Studio Code using Elements for Microsoft Edge
  17. Introducing tracking prevention, now available in Microsoft Edge preview builds
  18. Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1
  19. Building hybrid applications with the WebView2 developer preview
  20. Introducing the first Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS
  21. Developer Tools UI updates for Microsoft Edge Insiders
  22. What to expect in the new Microsoft Edge Insider Channels

2018 16

  1. Recapping yesterday’s Microsoft Edge and open source announcements
  2. Modernizing TLS connections in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
  3. Chakra documentation is joining MDN web docs
  4. Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17
  5. Enhancing automated testing in Microsoft Edge with new WebDriver capabilities, W3C protocol support, and automatic updates
  6. New features for extensions in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update
  7. Get started with web push notifications
  8. Previewing support for same-site cookies in Microsoft Edge
  9. Bringing a modern WebView to your .NET WinForms and WPF Apps
  10. Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API
  11. Introducing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Preview app
  12. Introducing sonarwhal v1: The linting tool for the web
  13. Bringing expressive, performant typography to Microsoft Edge with Variable Fonts
  14. Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10
  15. Improvements to the DevTools Console in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
  16. Mitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

2017 35

  1. Service Workers: Going beyond the page
  2. Building a great touchpad experience for the web with Pointer Events
  3. Introducing the Web Media Extension Package with OGG Vorbis and Theora support for Microsoft Edge
  4. Breaking on DOM Mutations in the Microsoft Edge DevTools
  5. New and improved Event and CSS inspection for Microsoft Edge DevTools
  6. Introducing new JavaScript optimizations, WebAssembly, SharedArrayBuffer, and Atomics in EdgeHTML 16
  7. sonar: Linting the web forward
  8. Documenting the Web together
  9. Bringing WebVR to everyone with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
  10. Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need to know
  11. Node-ChakraCore update from Node.js Interactive 2017
  12. Microsoft Edge extensions, one year later
  13. Watch Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 live on Channel 9
  14. Making the web smoother with independent rendering
  15. ES Modules in Node Today!
  16. Node-ChakraCore Update: N-API, Node.js on iOS and more
  17. The End of an Era – Next Steps for Adobe Flash
  18. An update on disabling VBScript in Internet Explorer 11
  19. Save the date: Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 comes to Seattle on September 13th
  20. Improving input responsiveness in Microsoft Edge
  21. Accessibility improvements in EdgeHTML 15
  22. Microsoft Edge at Build 2017
  23. Improvements for Enterprises in Microsoft Edge on the Windows 10 Creators Update
  24. Improved JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge
  25. Modernizing the DOM tree in Microsoft Edge
  26. Better battery life with Microsoft Edge
  27. Disabling VBScript execution in Internet Explorer 11
  28. Legacy web apps in the enterprise
  29. CSS Custom Properties in Microsoft Edge
  30. Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox
  31. Notes from the Node.js VM Summit
  32. Scrolling on the web: A primer
  33. Mitigating arbitrary native code execution in Microsoft Edge
  34. Introducing WebRTC 1.0 and interoperable real-time communications in Microsoft Edge
  35. Introducing support for Content Security Policy Level 2

2016 54

  1. Introducing Brotli compression in Microsoft Edge
  2. Extending User Control of Flash with Click-to-Run
  3. Node-ChakraCore and VM Neutrality in Node.js
  4. Balancing user-friendliness and developer convenience
  5. SHA-1 deprecation countdown
  6. Announcing the winners of the 2016 10k Apart contest
  7. A peek into the WebAssembly Browser Preview
  8. Introducing Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge
  9. Building in 10k: Compilation, Optimization, and Compression
  10. Building in 10k: Svelte JavaScript Enhancements
  11. Blocking out-of-date Flash ActiveX controls on IE11
  12. Bringing WebVR to Microsoft Edge
  13. Building in 10k: CSS Structure and Sandboxing
  14. Building in 10k: Designing for Optimization and Performance
  15. Building in 10k: Markup for Accessibility, Clarity, and Affordance
  16. Building in 10k: Content and Strategy
  17. Microsoft Edge and Continuum: Your desktop browser on Mobile
  18. What would you do with 10kB?
  19. Introducing #EdgeBug: File web platform bugs with a Tweet
  20. RC4 is now disabled in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
  21. Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X
  22. The Progress of Web Apps
  23. JavaScript performance updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra
  24. Building a more power efficient browser
  25. Building a faster and more secure web with TCP Fast Open, TLS False Start, and TLS 1.3
  26. New Enterprise improvements coming to IE11 on Windows 7 and 8.1
  27. Open-sourcing the Microsoft Edge WebGL GLSL transpiler
  28. Managing Microsoft Edge in the enterprise
  29. Introducing the Speech Synthesis API in Microsoft Edge
  30. Building an IoT Magic Mirror with Hosted Web Apps and Windows 10
  31. Previewing H.264/AVC support for ORTC
  32. Fetch (or the undeniable limitations of XHR)
  33. Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 are even better together in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
  34. Previewing ES6 Modules and more from ES2015, ES2016 and beyond
  35. Web Notifications in Microsoft Edge
  36. Building a more accessible user experience with HTML5 and UIA
  37. Analyzing website performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit
  38. Speed up page load with WOFF 2.0 fonts in Microsoft Edge
  39. An update to our SHA-1 deprecation roadmap
  40. Compare browser type systems with the new API Catalog tool
  41. Building a more accessible web platform
  42. WebM, VP9 and Opus Support in Microsoft Edge
  43. Preview plugin-free Skype video calling in Microsoft Edge
  44. Roadmap update for Real Time Communications in Microsoft Edge
  45. A world without passwords: Windows Hello in Microsoft Edge
  46. Putting Users in Control of Flash
  47. Introducing the Microsoft Edge Platform Issue Tracker
  48. Edge Web Summit 2016 is streaming live tomorrow at 8:30 AM PT
  49. Microsoft Edge extensions now available to preview
  50. RC4 will no longer be supported in Microsoft Edge and IE11 [Updated]
  51. Previewing WebAssembly experiments in Microsoft Edge
  52. Looking back: Microsoft Edge for developers in 2015
  53. Submitting a Pull Request to Node.js with ChakraCore
  54. ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

2015 58

  1. Evolving Microsoft SmartScreen to protect you from drive-by attacks
  2. Continuing to make it easier for Enterprise customers to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 — and Windows 10
  3. Protecting Microsoft Edge against binary injection
  4. SHA-1 Deprecation Update
  5. Using Encrypted Media Extensions for interoperable protected media
  6. Building sites and web apps for every device (guest series for npm)
  7. Asynchronous code gets easier with ES2016 Async Function support in Chakra and Microsoft Edge
  8. Accessibility: Towards a more inclusive web with Microsoft Edge and Windows 10
  9. Understanding versions in an evergreen browser
  10. ORTC API is now available in Microsoft Edge
  11. Announcing VP9 support coming to Microsoft Edge
  12. Ending support for the RC4 cipher in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
  13. Creating your own browser with HTML and JavaScript
  14. How Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 work better together in the Enterprise
  15. Previewing our first platform updates for Microsoft Edge
  16. Windows 10 virtual machines now available on Microsoft Edge Dev
  17. Recapping the July 2015 TC39 Committee meeting in Redmond
  18. Bringing automated testing to Microsoft Edge through WebDriver
  19. Announcing the latest improvements for the F12 developer tools in Windows 10
  20. Bringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components
  21. Publish responsive websites to the Windows Store with Project Westminster
  22. Moving to HTML5 Premium Media
  23. Inside Interop: How Medium Now Works on Microsoft Edge
  24. Building Flight Arcade: Behind the scenes with WebGL, WebAudio and GamePad API
  25. New Microsoft Edge Test Drive web demos go open-source
  26. Building a more interoperable Web with Microsoft Edge
  27. HTTP Strict Transport Security comes to Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
  28. Introducing srcset, our first step towards fully responsive images in Microsoft Edge
  29. Announcing Dolby Audio for high performance audio in Microsoft Edge
  30. Intel’s contributions in Microsoft Edge: SIMD and other performance enhancements
  31. Delivering fast JavaScript performance in Microsoft Edge
  32. Bringing Web Audio to Microsoft Edge for interoperable gaming and enthusiast media
  33. Using Chakra for Scripting Applications across Windows 10
  34. Announcing media capture functionality in Microsoft Edge
  35. JavaScript moves forward in Microsoft Edge with ECMAScript 6 and beyond
  36. Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser
  37. Building vorlon.JS with the help of the developer community and what’s next
  38. A look at new feedback-driven improvements to the network tool in our F12 Developer Tools
  39. Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
  40. A break from the past, part 2: Saying goodbye to ActiveX, VBScript, attachEvent…
  41. Introducing Microsoft Edge Dev
  42. Introducing Microsoft Edge, the browser built for Windows 10
  43. Announcing the 2015 “Project Spartan” Web Summit, May 5th and 6th in Mountain View, CA
  44. “Project Spartan” now available in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones
  45. “Project Spartan” in the Windows Technical Preview build 10049
  46. Updates from the “Project Spartan” Developer Workshop
  47. Partnering with Adobe on new contributions to our web platform
  48. Improving interoperability with DOM L3 XPath
  49. Rendering engine updates in March for the Windows 10 Technical Preview
  50. Certificate Reputation for website owners
  51. A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine
  52. Pointer Events W3C Recommendation, interoperable touch, and removing the dreaded 300ms tap delay
  53. Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10
  54. Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones
  55. Introducing the Selection API specification
  56. Simplified Adaptive Video Streaming: Announcing support for HLS and DASH in Windows 10
  57. Updates for the F12 developer tools in the Windows 10 January Technical Preview
  58. Project Spartan and the Windows 10 January Preview Build

2014 1

  1. Living on the edge – our next step in helping the web just work