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Microsoft’s browser users woke to a provocative headline this week — “Microsoft Is Killing Collections in Edge” — but the reality is more complicated, and the headlines have conflated two different changes in Edge’s UI experiments: an actual retirement of the user‑addable Sidebar app list in...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a helper for writing emails and summarizing web pages — it’s being shaped into a full shopping platform that can compare prices, track deals, surface cashback, and even complete purchases inside the Copilot interface, folding browser-era shopping tools into...

Microsoft’s Edge Canary for Android has quietly absorbed two of the browser’s more ambitious AI features — Copilot Vision and Journeys — bringing visual understanding and project-style session memory to mobile testers and signaling a clear push to make Edge a productivity-first, context-aware...

Microsoft Edge is quietly experimenting with a dramatic rethink of its New Tab Page (NTP), pushing Copilot from a sidebar helper into the center of the browsing experience — and in recent Canary builds testers are seeing a variant that mounts Copilot affordances on both sides of the browser...

Microsoft’s Edge browser is quietly wearing Copilot’s clothes: test builds in the Canary and Dev channels show a Copilot‑inspired visual overhaul that applies the assistant’s color palette, fonts and softer geometry to Edge’s settings, context menus and new‑tab surfaces — and that visual...

The long-running feud between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell has entered a new, surreal phase: a public “bot war” in which generative AIs — prompted from a partisan archive and then set against one another — openly contradict, correct, and amplify contested claims about events that began in...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot’s distinct visual language into Edge, testing a Copilot-inspired redesign in Canary and Dev that reshapes the new tab page, settings, and context menus and brings rounded corners, new colors, and fonts to the browser chrome. Background Microsoft announced a strategic...

Microsoft Edge has quietly morphed from a Windows default many users avoided into a genuinely competitive browser for Windows 11 — and not simply because it ships with the OS. Over the past several years Microsoft rebuilt Edge atop the Chromium engine, then layered deep Windows integration...

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...