At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

The Edge browser that comes with Windows 10 shows a marked improvement in performance, particularly in the area of JavaScript performance. Now Microsoft wants to amp up performance even more, and ...

Microsoft is making its Chakra JavaScript engine (which powers its Edge browser and many other products) open source. By doing so, the company hopes to develop deeper relations with the developer ...

Microsoft Edge is Microsoft's Windows 10 specific web brower. Unlike Internet Explorer (IE), which traces back its family tree to 1995 and Spyglass Mosaic, Edge is largely a new browser.

Both tech giants bring powerful, feature-packed browsers to the table, but only one can dominate your digital life. We break down the key differences between Chrome and Edge to help you choose the ...

Last November, Microsoft for the first time provided out-of-the-box Edge browser support for WebAssembly, the new technology that lets developers write Web code in non-JavaScript languages like C, C++ ...

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...