

So it doesn't hurt to be flexible and keep an extra browser installed for a rainy day. We have found that when downloading Microsoft Office for Mac or logging into your Microsoft account online the Edge browser may work just a bit better to get those jobs done. What does this mean if you're a Mac user? Microsft Edge will run on your Mac too, and there are times it may be a good choice. Google isn't the kind of company that will take a direct threat to its browser dominance lying down so the months ahead should be interesting indeed. This kind of thing verges on being dirty pool and although Google hasn't issued any kind of formal response you can bet that one will be coming.

They aren't part of any website but rather are generated from inside Microsoft Edge as a kind of "defense mechanism" to guard against being replaced. The new prompts are appearing mostly for Windows 11 users through some Windows 10 users have reported them as well.

That means under the hood the new Edge and Google's Chrome browser sport the same basic technology. The latest incarnation of Edge is interesting in that it was built around Chromium. That's why it keeps trying periodically to reinvent the wheel offering up new and improved versions first of its "Internet Explorer" browser and more recently of Microsoft Edge. The company clearly hasn't gotten over the fact that it lost the browser wars and lost them handily. It's no real secret that Microsoft has never been a big fan of Chrome, Firefox, or any other web browser that it didn't build.
