Microsoft Edge is becoming the browser you didn’t know you needed

It's no secret that we've been enthusiastic about Microsoft's new, Chromium-based Edge browser for a while now. But that enthusiasm has mostly been limited to "a default Windows browser that doesn't suck," rather than being for any particularly compelling set of features the new Edge brings to the browser ecosystem.

In a folksy announcement this week, Microsoft politely declared its determination to step up our expectations from "doesn't suck" to somewhere on the level of "oh, wow." Microsoft Corporate VP Liat Ben-Zur spent plenty of time enthusing about the way the new features are, apparently, already changing her life.

The only thing that has me excited about the new Edge is that Windows will finally have a proper default browser that isn't either complete garbage (Internet Explorer) or ignored by every web developer ever (the old Edge).