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Microsoft’s browser battleground has acquired a new skirmish line: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas is being positioned as a potential Windows competitor, and evidence suggests Microsoft Edge is already testing the plumbing to intercept installs and nudge users toward Edge via Bing — a replay of...

Microsoft has confirmed a Chromium‑based Microsoft Edge spoofing flaw, tracked as CVE‑2025‑65046, that allows a malicious page or a content script injected into a page to display a browser extension’s popup over a permission prompt or screen‑share dialog, enabling the extension UI to impersonate...

Microsoft Edge Canary now surfaces a simple on/off switch for Copilot mode directly in the three‑dot menu, making it obvious that the AI‑centric browsing experience is optional and easy to exit — a small UI change with outsized implications for discoverability, user control, and enterprise...

Microsoft Edge has begun testing a new, security‑focused banner that appears when users attempt to download Google Chrome, pitching Edge as an “all‑in‑one” browser with built‑in privacy and safety tools rather than the older engine‑or‑brand comparisons that appeared in previous nudges...

Microsoft Edge quietly does a lot of the heavy lifting most browsers only promise — and for many power users it’s become less of a “web page viewer” and more of a productivity hub that shaves hours off research, planning, and repetitive busywork every week. The browser’s Collections, Workspaces...

Chromium CVE-2025-14373 affects an “inappropriate implementation in Toolbar” and appears in the Microsoft Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes the upstream Chromium open‑source project — the entry announces that the latest Edge builds have ingested the Chromium...

No — as of December 8, 2025, Microsoft Azure is not globally down, but the spike in community reports and the resurfacing of outage questions reflect real, recent incidents (notably an October 29 Azure Front Door incident and a December 5 Cloudflare edge outage) that have left admins...

Microsoft Edge’s appetite for RAM isn’t a mystery or a single bug — it’s the sum of modern browser design, heavy web pages, background extensions, and default behaviors — but the browser now gives you multiple, built‑in tools to diagnose, limit, and control that appetite, and using them together...

Nearly three decades after it first put a blue “e” on the map, Microsoft retired the Internet Explorer desktop application in mid‑2022 and redirected its legacy responsibilities into Microsoft Edge — a strategic and technical decision driven as much by modern web standards, security, and...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a clear step from being a productivity aide to an active, transaction-oriented assistant: shopping tools that used to live as scattered Edge features are now folded into Copilot in Edge and the standalone Copilot app, giving users price comparison, price history...

Microsoft has quietly turned Copilot into a built‑in shopping assistant: price comparisons, historical price charts, watch‑list alerts, review summaries and cashback signals are now surfaced directly inside Microsoft Edge’s Copilot pane and in the standalone Copilot app — a consolidation that...

Microsoft has folded its long‑running shopping tools into Copilot in Edge, turning the browser’s assistant into an active, AI‑driven shopping companion that can compare prices, show price history, track items, summarize reviews, and surface cashback opportunities — with the initial rollout...

Microsoft Edge Canary has quietly started turning the browser’s New Tab Page into a mini Copilot prompt board — a strip of “Try something new” suggestion cards that push Copilot tasks front and center every time you open a new tab, whether you asked for it or not. The experimental UI places a...

Microsoft’s step-by-step guidance for bringing bookmarks and passwords into Microsoft Edge simplifies a painful part of switching browsers — but the reality on the ground is more nuanced. The official procedure for importing favorites (bookmarks) from an HTML file or passwords from a CSV is...

Microsoft Edge is quietly retiring the long-favored Sidebar app list in Canary builds and steering that small real‑estate toward a Copilot‑first experience — an experiment that, if it reaches Stable, will reshape how many Windows users multitask in the browser. Early testers report an in‑product...

Microsoft’s latest marketing gambit has turned a routine search for Google Chrome into a literal offer: a prominent, unskippable Bing banner promising up to 1,300 Microsoft Rewards points if users “try Edge” instead of downloading Chrome. The move is more than a push‑notification; it’s a...

Microsoft’s latest test in Edge Canary quietly signals a shift in the browser’s sidebar strategy: the “Sidebar app list” — the small, convenient launcher that let users pin websites and mini‑apps like Instagram, Spotify and Facebook — is being retired in favor of a Copilot‑centred experience...

Microsoft’s latest in‑product marketing tactic — a targeted Bing prompt offering 1,300 Microsoft Rewards points to users who search for “Chrome” while using Edge on Windows 11 — has reignited a long‑running debate over whether an operating‑system vendor can lawfully, or ethically, steer users...

Microsoft is now dangling Microsoft Rewards points — and the promise of gift cards and subscriptions — in front of Windows 11 users who search for “Chrome” in Microsoft Edge, a move that swaps the old passive “use Edge” nudge for a small, explicit financial incentive meant to stop users from...

Microsoft's long-promised, cross-device passkey sync is finally arriving for Windows users — and it's doing more than simply copying keys between machines. The company has begun rolling out a cloud-backed passkey provider inside Microsoft Edge that saves passkeys to Microsoft Password Manager...