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'''Microsoft Edge''' (formerly "Spartan") is a [[web browser]] developed by [[Microsoft]].  It replaces [[Internet Explorer]] in [[Windows 10]] as the default web browser, although Internet Explorer is still retained for compatibility reasons. Edge started out using Microsoft's EdgeHTML engine which it built in-house. However, in 2019, they switched over to using Chromium's browser engine, Blink. This change was met with controvercy,<ref>https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-why-microsoft-edges-switch-to-googles-chromium-is-bad-news/</ref> but it resulted in Edge gaining market share.<ref>https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/10/04/microsoft-chromium-edge-market-share-grows-again/</ref> The Chromium-based edition was announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 event in November 2019, and released in beta at the same time. It was formally released to the public on January 15th, 2020.<ref>https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/microsoft-edge-chromium/</ref>

'''Microsoft Edge''' (formerly "Spartan") is a [[web browser]] developed by [[Microsoft]].  It replaces [[Internet Explorer]] in [[Windows 10]] as the default web browser, although Internet Explorer is still retained for compatibility reasons. Edge started out using Microsoft's EdgeHTML engine which it built in-house. However, in 2019, they switched over to using Chromium's browser engine, Blink. This change was met with controversy,<ref>https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-why-microsoft-edges-switch-to-googles-chromium-is-bad-news/</ref> but it resulted in Edge gaining market share.<ref>https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/10/04/microsoft-chromium-edge-market-share-grows-again/</ref> The Chromium-based edition was announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 event in November 2019 and released in beta at the same time. It was formally released to the public on January 15th, 2020.<ref>https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/microsoft-edge-chromium/</ref>

The original Edge is was controversial because Microsoft has historically tried to dominate over other vendors by not following industry standards.  An exception to this is Microsoft's promotion of [[HTML 5]] as a standard over the widely used [[Adobe Flash]] plug-in for sharing and displaying video content.  The anniversary version of Edge introduced in 2016 disabled Flash until a user enables it and will disable automatic playing of embedded flash videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/08/microsoft_disables_flash_in_edge/|title=Microsoft drives an Edge between Adobe and the web: Flash ads blocked|date=April 8, 2016|accessdate=April 10, 2016|work=The Register}}</ref>

The original Edge is was controversial because Microsoft has historically tried to dominate over other vendors by not following industry standards.  An exception to this is Microsoft's promotion of [[HTML 5]] as a standard over the widely used [[Adobe Flash]] plug-in for sharing and displaying video content.  The anniversary version of Edge introduced in 2016 disabled Flash until a user enables it and will disable automatic playing of embedded flash videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/08/microsoft_disables_flash_in_edge/|title=Microsoft drives an Edge between Adobe and the web: Flash ads blocked|date=April 8, 2016|accessdate=April 10, 2016|work=The Register}}</ref>