?EU?With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge is more efficient than ever, and still the best choice for extending your battery life on Windows 10,?EU? Jason Weber, Microsoft?EU?s director of the Web platform team for Microsoft Edge, wrote in a blog post yesterday. Edge is 24 percent to 43 percent more energy efficient when it comes to general browsing, and 23 percent to 69 percent more efficient when streaming video, according to Weber.
Microsoft dominated the browser wars for years, at least in the office environment where its Internet Explorer (IE) was ubiquitous on Windows machines and, frequently, the only browser office workers could install on their machines. But Google?EU?s Chrome has clawed away a significant chunk, while Mozilla?EU?s popular Firefox browser has also managed to make a decent showing in recent years by offering new features, add-ons, and functionality.
But Microsoft renewed its efforts in the browser wars with its new Microsoft Edge, a completely new browser that replaced IE when the company rolled out its Windows 10 operating system last year.
While Edge is not as ubiquitous as Internet Explorer used to be, it still has a major advantage over competing browsers by virtue of being pre-loaded on Windows machines. However, Edge?EU?s competitors, such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera, have also made their own improvements in energy efficiency.
Microsoft has acknowledged that competing browsers have succeeded in increasing efficiency, but claimed that Edge continued to outperform them all, at least when run on...