A new business mode for Edge that enables end users to completely separates work and personal browsing into dedicated browser windows, in addition to offering other features aimed at admins.

In May 2020, an update to Microsoft Edge added Surf, a browser game where players control a surfer attempting to evade obstacles and collect powerups.

[44][45] According to Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore, the decision for the change came after CEO Satya Nadella told the team in 2017 that the product needed to be better and pushed for replacing its in-house rendering engine with an open source one.

[47] On May 20, 2019, the first preview builds of Edge for macOS were released to the public, marking the first time in 13 years that a Microsoft browser was available on the Mac platform.

On September 22, 2020, Microsoft announced that a beta version of Edge for Linux would be available in preview form in October 2020.

There will be a free version of the integrated Edge VPN available but is limited to 1 GB of data transfer.

[59] On November 14, 2024, Microsoft announced that they will drop support for CPUs that lack the SSE3 instruction set with the release of Edge version 128.

[115][116] According to Douglas J. Leith, a computer science professor from Trinity College, Dublin, Microsoft Edge is among the least private browsers.

He explained, "from a privacy perspective Microsoft Edge and Yandex are much more worrisome than the other browsers studied.

Edge sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft, a strong and enduring identifier than cannot be easily changed or deleted.

"[117] In response, a spokesperson from Microsoft Edge explained that it uses user diagnostic data to improve the product.

In November 2021, a patch was released to frustrate a workaround employed by the third-party tool "EdgeDeflector", with a Microsoft spokesperson stating that search in the Windows shell is an "end-to-end customer experience" that is not designed to be modified.

[124][125] In December 2021, Microsoft began testing the display of in-browser prompts on the Google Chrome website to discourage downloading the browser.

[128] In February 2023, users reported seeing large banner advertisements for Microsoft Edge on the Chrome download page, a move that was criticized for deceptively altering part of Google's official website.

[129] In October 2023, Microsoft began testing the display of a sidebar containing a survey related to Chrome when the browser is downloaded.