Latest Microsoft Edge released for Windows  

Pulcinella said:

New Microsoft Edge Stable 86.0.622.43 version released

bug locker said:

Hi Brinks and thanks. Any link to show what's new in this version ?

I don't see anything yet other than this below, but it's not very helpful.

We'''ve updated you to the latest build.

New Microsoft Edge app version released for Android and iOS - Oct. 16

Special said:

Microsoft Edge Sneakily installs Office Web Apps on Windows

I rebuilt a PC a couple of days ago, updated to the latest stable Edge and sure enough there were loads of Office Apps.
As the article says, they're easy enough to uninstall

Chrome does the same.

New Microsoft Edge Canary 88.0.676.0 version released. See first post for more details.

AND

New Microsoft Edge Dev 87.0.664.11 version released. See first post for more details.

Edge's PDF reader now offers the option to add comments to highlighted text (controlled rollout in Dev and Canary):


Edge legacy also had this option but it was called "Add note".


Another novelty has to do with a Chromium bug in the "New tab" button, the fix for this bug has reached the Canary version today:

As you can see in the image, the clickable area of the button now extends to the top edge of the window in the Canary version. I don't know if Edge developers will merge the fix of this bug into the stable version soon.