


The new version of the browser has a different logo - a circular crashing wave tinted blue, green and aqua that's reminiscent of the old blue IE "e" icon. Using Chromium resolves those compatibility problems. The new version of Edge marks a fundamental change in the browser: a shift to Chromium, Google's open-source foundation for the Chrome browser.

The software giant couldn't couldn't keep the browser compatible with enough websites, however, and customers started dumping it. Introduced in 2015, Edge was part of a modernization effort that stripped out old Internet Explorer code. Microsoft stripped the beta label from the browser on Wednesday, and you can now download it from Microsoft's Edge website. Microsoft spent the last year giving its Edge software a browser brain transplant, and now the company is convinced it's smart enough to help everyone who uses it.
