10 Reasons You Should Be Using Microsoft Edge Now

Internet Explorer, rightly or wrongly, had come to represent everything that was wrong with both Microsoft and the wider browser market. It was riddled with security vulnerabilities, it had a complete lack of support for extensions, it was full of problems, it was slow, it was incompatible – it was awful.
Finally, after months of rumor and counter-rumor, Microsoft released Microsoft Edge to the public on 29th July – distributing it with its new Windows 10 upgrade. It marked a complete break from the Internet Explorer brand name, killing off a 20-year-old family tree in the process.
Internet Explorer is still available for compatibility purposes – but you need to move on. Here’s ten reasons you should start using Microsoft Edge right now…
1) Speed
Speed is one of the most important aspects to consider when you’re deciding which browser should become your default choice. Chrome used to be the undisputed king, but a series of new features and endless extensions has seen it lose its advantage.
According to Microsoft, Edge is now the fastest browser on the market. In a blog post, they claim that their offering is “beating Chrome and Safari on their own JavaScript benchmarks” – adding that on WebKit Sunspider, Edge is 112 percent faster than Chrome, on Google Octane, Edge is 11 percent faster than Chrome, and on Apple JetStream, Edge is 37 percent faster than Chrome.
Other independent testing found that Chrome was still slightly faster than Edge when it came to “real-world” loading of pages, but that as soon as a couple of extensions were installed Edge became the number one.
2) Annotate Pages
Microsoft Edge becomes the first browser that natively allows you to add notes to webpages that you’re viewing.
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This brings a host of benefits for a wide range of users. For example, students can annotate pages that they need to include in project, people who love to cook can make tweaks and amendments to recipes and then either print them or share them with friends, while designers who need to provide feedback on the layout of a site will now find the process a lot more straightforward.
It should be noted, this works a lot better if you have a touchscreen computer and pen.
To activate the feature just click on the pen and paper icon in the top right-hand corner. Once you finished making your amendments you can either save it as a bookmark, share it via OneNote, or save it to your reading list.
3) Reading List
Ok, this isn’t an entirely new feature; a reading list was including in Windows 8. It was underused, however, and very few people knew where to find it and how to operate it.
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