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    Windows 11 September 2025 Patch Tuesday: fixes, 25H2 ISOs, SSD saga, and debloat tools

    Microsoft pushed a busy week of changes across Windows 11 and the broader Windows ecosystem: September’s Patch Tuesday landed with a handful of quality fixes and a long-requested calendar clock return, Microsoft released ISOs for Windows 11 version 25H2 to Insiders, the SSD “bricking” saga...
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    Windows 11 25H2: Deployment, Deprecations, and IT Readiness

    Microsoft’s Windows week delivered a heavy mix of stabilization, incremental feature rollouts, and operational housekeeping: official ISOs for Windows 11 version 25H2 are now available to Windows Insiders, Patch Tuesday delivered several quality fixes (including a restored clock in the calendar...
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    Microsoft Deprecates Legacy Edge Components — Migrate to WebView2 & Chromium PWAs

    Microsoft has quietly moved a cluster of legacy Edge components onto Windows’ official deprecated-features list, formally flagging Legacy Web View, Hosted / Windows Web Applications (Windows 8/8.1 / early UWP HTML/JavaScript apps), legacy Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and the EdgeHTML (Legacy Edge)...
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    Microsoft Deprecates EdgeHTML Web Components, Accelerates WebView2 and Chromium PWAs

    Microsoft has quietly placed a cluster of legacy web components — the EdgeHTML-era pieces that once connected Windows and the web — onto Windows’ official deprecation list, signaling a formal step toward their eventual removal and accelerating the platform’s shift to Chromium-based embedding and...
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    EdgeHTML Deprecation: Migrating to WebView2, Chromium PWAs, and WinUI

    Microsoft has quietly moved a set of EdgeHTML-era web components onto Windows’ official deprecation list, marking the next step in a long shift away from platform-specific web integration toward Chromium-based runtimes and standards-based Progressive Web Apps. This change — which names Legacy...
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    Windows EdgeHTML Deprecation: Migrate to WebView2 and Chromium PWAs

    Microsoft’s quiet entry on the Windows deprecation list this summer signals a decisive end to another generation of web integration in the OS: Legacy Web View, EdgeHTML-based web apps, legacy PWAs, and the EdgeHTML DevTools are now officially deprecated, and developers are being pushed toward...
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    Bringing a modern WebView to your .NET WinForms and WPF Apps

    One of the founding principles of Microsoft Edge is that it is evergreen, with automatic updates to Windows 10 continually refreshing both Microsoft Edge itself and web content throughout Windows 10. However, until recently, WinForms and WPF apps didn’t have access to the Microsoft Edge-powered...
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    Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10

    A little over a year ago, we outlined our vision to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to the more than half a billion devices running Windows 10. We believe PWAs are key to the web’s future, and couldn’t be more excited about their potential to enable more immersive web app experiences across...
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    Breaking on DOM Mutations in the Microsoft Edge DevTools

    Editor’s note: This continues the series we began last week, highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. As the web platform evolves, the line between web and application developers continues to blur. It’s common now for a web site to be more like a web...
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    New and improved Event and CSS inspection for Microsoft Edge DevTools

    Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. EdgeHTML 16 is now rolling out to devices around the world as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creator’s Update—and with it, some great improvements to the...
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    Introducing new JavaScript optimizations, WebAssembly, SharedArrayBuffer, and Atomics in...

    JavaScript performance has always been a core area of focus for our team. Every release, we look for opportunities to improve end users’ browsing experience on real workloads with shorter start-up time, faster execution, and leaner memory usage. These efforts are guided by invaluable ongoing...
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    Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need to know

    As you may have read on the Windows Experience blog, Joe Belfiore announced today that Microsoft Edge is coming to iOS and Android, bringing the best browsing experience on Windows 10 to more pockets around the world. Joe’s post has everything you need to know about availability and features of...
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    Accessibility improvements in EdgeHTML 15

    In last year’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced a new architecture for web accessibility, enabling a more accessible web with Microsoft Edge. With this dramatically improved foundation, we’ve been hard at work improving the experience even more in EdgeHTML 15 and the Windows 10...
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    Microsoft Edge at Build 2017

    Last week, Microsoft welcomed thousands of developers from around the world to Build 2017, where we shared our vision for the future of dozens of products and services. Build featured a number of exciting sessions for developers building sites and apps with web technologies, including a peek at...
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    What’s new in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Creators Update

    Today, the Windows 10 Creators Update began rolling out to over 400 million Windows 10 devices. With the Creators Update, we’re upgrading Microsoft Edge with dozens of new features and under-the-hood improvements to make the best browser on Windows 10 faster, leaner, and more capable than ever...
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    Announcing free Microsoft Edge testing in partnership with BrowserStack

    Today, we’re thrilled to announce a partnership with BrowserStack, a leader in mobile and web testing, to provide remote virtual testing on Microsoft Edge for free. Until now, developers who need to test against a specific version of Microsoft Edge have been limited to local virtual machines, or...
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    CSS Custom Properties in Microsoft Edge

    Beginning with EdgeHTML 15 in the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft Edge introduces support for CSS Custom Properties, a new primitive value type to fully cascade variables across CSS properties. You can preview CSS Custom Properties in Windows Insider Preview builds beginning with EdgeHTML...
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    What’s new in Microsoft Edge with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

    It’s been just over a year since we first introduced Microsoft Edge, the brand new browser for Windows 10. We took a new direction, establishing Microsoft Edge as a browser for doing more on the web, with reading tools, notetaking, and Cortana built-in. We built it on top of the Universal...
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    Building a faster and more secure web with TCP Fast Open, TLS False Start, and TLS 1.3

    Performance and security matter to everyone. Better page load performance improves the user’s experience and influences their choice over which web pages to use. At the same time, users just expect their browsing experience to be secure and private. With TCP Fast Open, TLS False Start, and TLS...
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    Accessibility: Towards a more inclusive web with Microsoft Edge and Windows 10

    Microsoft is committed to accessibility as a core part of software design, and today we would like to share more about how Microsoft Edge is evolving to improve support for assistive technology beyond what was possible in Internet Explorer. Inclusive development is a journey, not merely a...
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