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Microsoft Edge is quietly pushing the same soft‑sell tactic tech companies have used for years: make a helpful feature extremely visible, then nudge users toward it until it becomes habitual — only this time the feature is an AI rewrite tool that can appear any time you select text in a web text...

Microsoft's documentation makes a simple but important distinction: Microsoft Edge will always prompt before sharing your precise location with a website, but websites can still estimate an imprecise location (for example by IP address) without the browser asking permission—and that behavior is...

I am using Windows 11 Pro. I am currently taking an online course, and the preferred browser is Chrome. Since I spend a lot of time in this course, I would like the default to be Chrome for the time being. I've set all the defaults I could find to Chrome, but the system seems to default to...

Windows 10 will reach its official end of support on October 14, 2025, but one critical piece of the platform — Microsoft Edge and the WebView2 runtime — will continue to receive security and feature updates on Windows 10 (22H2) through at least October 2028, even for devices that do not...

Short answer — because Microsoft Edge is built on Chromium: Microsoft documents Chromium-assigned CVEs in the Security Update Guide so Edge administrators know when Microsoft’s Edge builds have ingested the upstream Chromium fix and are no longer vulnerable. How to check your browser version...

Short answer Microsoft documents CVE-2025-11207 in its Security Update Guide because the bug is in Chromium OSS (the codebase that Microsoft Edge uses). Microsoft publishes these entries to record that the Chromium vulnerability has been addressed in the Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) builds...

A Chromium-assigned vulnerability like CVE-2025-11205 (heap buffer overflow in WebGPU) appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes the Chromium open‑source engine; Microsoft uses the Security Update Guide to record upstream Chromium CVEs, track...

The short answer: Microsoft documents Chromium-assigned CVEs in the Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (the Chromium-based Edge) consumes Chromium OSS. MSRC adds those CVE entries to show customers the vendor-of-origin (Chrome/Chromium) information and to indicate whether the current...

Microsoft’s push to make Edge an “AI browser” took a decisive step this year with an update that gives Copilot the ability to act on users’ behalf inside the browser — opening and navigating tabs, running searches, and executing multi-step tasks like bookings and form-filling when explicitly...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a neat demo or a sidebar curiosity — it has become a deeply woven productivity layer across Windows, Microsoft 365 apps, OneDrive, and the Edge browser, and choosing whether to adopt it requires weighing clear time-saving gains against licensing, privacy, and...

Google pushed an emergency Chrome update to address CVE-2025-10585, a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine that Google says is being actively exploited in the wild — and because Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based, Windows users and enterprises must confirm their Edge builds...

Microsoft has quietly begun serving a new, highly visual Bing ad that places a full “scoreboard” comparison between Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome above Chrome’s official download links on Windows 11 — a move that reframes a user’s intent at the precise moment they look to switch browsers and...

Microsoft is quietly testing a one‑click internet speed test in Windows 11 that surfaces a “Perform speed test” launcher in the taskbar’s network menu and Wi‑Fi quick settings — a small UX change that opens Bing’s web speed‑test widget in the default browser rather than running a fully native...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...

Microsoft has quietly added a one‑click internet speed test to recent Windows 11 Insider builds — a seemingly helpful convenience that, upon inspection, is not a native diagnostic at all but a launcher that opens Bing’s web‑based speed‑test widget in the default browser. Background Windows has...

Microsoft quietly rolled a small but potentially meaningful convenience into recent Windows 11 Insider builds: a “Perform speed test” entry in the network menu and Wi‑Fi quick settings that launches an internet speed check directly from the taskbar, but crucially it opens Bing’s web‑based speed...

Microsoft is quietly testing a one‑click internet speed test in Windows 11 that puts a “Perform speed test” shortcut directly in the taskbar’s network menu and Wi‑Fi quick settings — but the control simply launches Bing’s web speed‑test widget in your default browser rather than running a...

Microsoft is quietly testing a small but notable convenience feature in Windows 11: a one‑click internet speed test shortcut embedded directly in the network flyout and taskbar context menu — a shortcut that, for now, simply launches Bing’s online speed‑test widget rather than running a native...

Windows’ built‑in antivirus has quietly become the practical choice for millions of users, and the recent pushback against paid suites is no accident — the free Windows security stack now combines deep OS integration, modern cloud and AI detections, and targeted anti‑ransomware controls that...

Microsoft Edge’s latest beta builds are shipping a preview of AI-powered live audio translation for videos on Windows 11 — a feature that can generate translated subtitles or even dub spoken audio in real time — but it comes with a notable hardware bar: Microsoft says your device must have at...