The Graph is Microsoft’s cross-platform system for allowing you to sync the state of your work and documents across devices and the company sees it as key to the future of Windows. Edge and the Microsoft Launcher are both key to this strategy because they’ll help the company extend the Microsoft Graph even further. The company is also graduating its Arrow Launcher for Android and renaming it to Microsoft Launcher.Įven though Microsoft basically doesn’t play in the mobile OS and hardware space anymore, it still needs to have a presence on rival platforms if it doesn’t want to risk losing its relevancy on the desktop, too.
That’s exactly what the company has been doing for the last few years and today the company announced that its Edge browser (the successor to the much - and often justly - maligned Internet Explorer) will soon come to iOS and Android, too. That only leaves Microsoft with one option: concede defeat and bring its applications to the likes of Android and iOS. On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram.While Microsoft is still officially working on the mobile version of Windows 10, it’s no secret that the company has all but given up on building its own mobile ecosystem. According to a third-party browser tracking website NetMarketShare, Google Chrome is the top mobile browser followed by Safari, Opera Mini, and Firefox.Īccording to another third-party tracker StatCounter, Chrome and UC Browser are among the top browsers in India.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us The new mobile browser will be competing against the likes of Google Chrome, UC Browser, Opera Mini and Safari among others. The company is leveraging Google's Android WebView control in order to make the Edge browser at par with Chrome on Android. On Android, Microsoft is using the Blink rendering engine, which has been sourced from the Chromium Browser project. This essentially means Microsoft Edge for iOS can match the experience as on Safari browser on iPhones and iPad. Microsoft further explains that it is using Apple's WebKit engine for the iOS version of the browser.
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