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Microsoft will remove Edge browser, replace it with open-source avatar

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In a news that will affect virtually no one, Microsoft is sending its existing Edge browser to the scrap heap. That's the former software leader giving up on browsers for the second time and retiring its EdgeHTML rendering engine to embrace Google's open-source browser project Chromium. An April 13 security patch will remove the legacy Edge browser and replace it with the Chromium-based one.